{"id":96382,"date":"2023-05-31T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:10:44","slug":"whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Hi and welcome to our May update on AI for Accounting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an incredible month (again) for AI and generative AI specifically, as it&#8217;s able to generate impressive images, text, music and much more from human (mostly language) inputs. What a time to be alive!<\/p>\n<p>For images, remember the hype started with <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/dall-e-2\">DALL\u00b7E<\/a> from OpenAI, but it really exploded with the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/stability.ai\/blog\/stable-diffusion-public-release\">release<\/a> of the free and open-source stable diffusion model. This led to a cambrian explosion of use cases and integration in games, image software, design, technical drawing and so much more. There seems to be no bound on the creativity and applications once these open models are available.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the language models. LARGE language models (LLM\u2019s). It turns out, quite surprisingly, that if you keep scaling up these LLM\u2019s to billions, tens of billions and, yes, hundreds of billions of parameters, then at one point, spontaneously, some capabilities emerge. These capabilities do not grow linearly or even exponentially. No, the model was not able to do it in smaller (yet still huge) models before, but at a certain threshold, some remarkable properties appear <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonwei.net\/blog\/emergence\">in more than 100 abilities<\/a> so far. In physics, this behaviour is called <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emergence\">emergence<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">,<\/span> more popularly known as \u2018the whole is more than the sum of its parts\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27987 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image8.gif\" alt=\"image\" width=\"1600\" height=\"583\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2022\/04\/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27998 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/emergence.gif\" alt=\"emergence\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonwei.net\/blog\/emergence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">137 emergent abilities of large language models<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-animation-role=\"date\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>OpenAI clearly demonstrated this with GPT-4 that was able to pass many exams and tests. <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c\">Microsoft even called<\/a> it \u2018sparks of artificial <em>general<\/em> intelligence\u2019. Interestingly, OpenAI surprised the market not only with its model quality, but as well by also offering an API and even fine tuning capabilities, putting the raw power in the hands of developers. This ultimately forced Google\u2019s hand, as the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1706.03762\">original inventor<\/a> and frontrunner in LLM, to open up their LLM\u2019s as well and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/google-palm-2-ai-large-language-model\/\">release PaLM 2<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These are exciting times for developers, because of these great powers now easily available, but with great power comes great responsibility. Or in this case, unique challenges for deploying these models with respect to versioning, monitoring, testing bias, interoperability, etc, now coined as <a href=\"https:\/\/huyenchip.com\/2023\/04\/11\/llm-engineering.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LLMOps<\/a>. In some cases you even need a second LLM to keep an eye on what your first LLM is doing in production. Just imagine, models watching models.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you apply these LLM to a domain specific task, such as accounting, or have these general LLM\u2019s use your customer\u2019s data or internal knowledge? Several options are available:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prompt engineering<\/span>:<\/span> you can give your general LLM a few examples of questions and expected answers before the actual user prompt and it will generalise to this new situation. But you\u2019ll also need to very precisely describe the output you expect. It\u2019s a powerful and widely used approach, but can be somewhat frustrating at times.<br \/>\nAnd of course, you can now have <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2211.01910\">other LLM\u2019s help you prompt<\/a> your original LLM or even use custom-designed <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/guidance\/\">computer languages for prompt engineering<\/a>. Yeah, it\u2019s getting pretty crazy out there.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;\">Fine-tuning<\/span>: if you have hundreds of examples or a specific static knowledge base, you may use that to tune the parameters of the LLM directly and thereby create your own, unique LLM (although in the background it will actually be a <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2106.09685\">superposition<\/a> of the general and your custom parameters). In contrast to prompt engineering, you can reuse this model without having to prepend some custom prompt and you can use prompt engineering on top of this fine-tuned model. However the API costs for creating and running fine-tuned models are usually quite a bit heftier.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Embed (dynamic) knowledge in a vector database<\/span><\/strong>: well, a lot of AI lingo to unpack here! Suppose you have a database of customer data or accounting documents that may change over time and you want to have your LLM reason over these in real time, eg. to summarise, retrieve, or use them to fill in other documents. What you can do is encode these documents in a text embedding, which you may think of as breaking them up in small text snippets and have a language model add a lot of semantic tags to them. These embeddings are then stored in a vector database which are designed for fast approximate retrieval (note that an embedding is represented by a vector, basically a list of numbers). So when your LLM wants to use some relevant information, it simply queries from that vector database any text snippets that are close to its answer and uses that to give an informed result. Sounds complicated, but it\u2019s nothing more than allowing the LLM to use real-time (private) information to give the user a better-informed answer.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Other solutions exist as well:<\/span><\/span> <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2104.08691\">Prompt tuning<\/a> (think of it as something between prompt-engineering and fine-tuning), multimodal (including pictures, spoken text or other modalities in the prompt &#8211; think invoices directly), longer input prompts (Claude with <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/index\/100k-context-windows\">up to 100k tokens<\/a>, which allows a full book as input) and others will no doubt be invented soon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>With all of this, let\u2019s not forget to typical challenges with AI:<\/p>\n<p>1) a focus on data quality, where we actually use AI to assist our users in standardising their data<br \/>\n2) data availability requires a strong cloud platform,<br \/>\n3) security and privacy remain key to build trust, and<br \/>\n4) as always, the value is not in the AI itself, but the value we are able to bring to the user through integration in the product.<\/p>\n<p>So how does all of this impact accounting? Well, GPT-3 wasn\u2019t able to pass the CPA exam, but <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4452175\">GPT-4 does pass<\/a> with the use of a calculator. This shows the strength of an LLM as a general reasoning agent, because it can use simple tools like calculators or a python coding environment to answer questions, as well generalise remarkably well from just a few examples.<\/p>\n<p>At our Silverfin Fast Forward event in early May, we showed a <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silverfin.com\/nl-be\/resources\/chat-gpt-zet-eerste-stappen-in-silverfin\">GPT-4 proof of concept<\/a> coming out of our Silverfin Labs and that\u2019s now live with a few of customers &#8211; more on that in a follow-up blog post. We expect there will in a few years be a divide between those technology providers that embrace AI to the core and those left behind, which is exactly why we are exploring these technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, we\u2019re already witnessing a direct impact of generative AI on business. For example, Chegg, a billion dollar company, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0db12614-324c-483c-b31c-2255e8562910\">lost<\/a> more than half (!) of its market value when the impact of generative AI became clear on its business model that provides homework help with textbooks in education. We also noticed AI companies raising hundreds of millions or billion dollar valuations, with the clear winner being <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fd317e1b-0440-4840-bc0a-0aa35c776ffd\">Nvidia<\/a> that sells AI chips &#8211; the classic shovel salesman during the gold rush.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe in such a dramatic evolution in accountancy. If anything, there\u2019s a growing lack of qualified accountants and AI will not replace them, but it will allow them to spend more time with their clients and focus on the human aspect instead of the tedious compliance tasks that will be more and more assisted by AI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi and welcome to our May update on AI for Accounting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":96383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[925],"tags":[880,892],"class_list":["post-96382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog-en-ie","tag-ai-en-ie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Generative AI in Accounting: May Update | Silverfin IE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover how generative AI is shaping the future of accounting, from automation to insights. See what\u2019s next for AI in Ireland today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Discover how generative AI is shaping the future of accounting, from automation to insights. See what\u2019s next for AI in Ireland today.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Silverfin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/getsilverfin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-31T11:02:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-16T12:10:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marina Zoraya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@getsilverfin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@getsilverfin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Marina Zoraya\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Marina Zoraya\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/512843d4ce7f43a331390a88652dd52f\"},\"headline\":\"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-31T11:02:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-16T12:10:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1208,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Blog\",\"AI\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-IE\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/\",\"name\":\"Generative AI in Accounting: May Update | Silverfin IE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-31T11:02:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-16T12:10:44+00:00\",\"description\":\"Discover how generative AI is shaping the future of accounting, from automation to insights. See what\u2019s next for AI in Ireland today.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-IE\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-IE\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/05\\\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":284,\"caption\":\"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/\",\"name\":\"Silverfin\",\"description\":\"Cloud Post-Accounting and Compliance\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Silverfin\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-IE\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Silverfin\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-IE\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/Silverfin_VISMA.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/Silverfin_VISMA.svg\",\"width\":152,\"height\":45,\"caption\":\"Silverfin\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/getsilverfin\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/getsilverfin\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/silverfin\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/512843d4ce7f43a331390a88652dd52f\",\"name\":\"Marina Zoraya\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-IE\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5e199e6d030f1b6a6addfb00d7f357301bdfe6a10efca107a1120547081200cd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5e199e6d030f1b6a6addfb00d7f357301bdfe6a10efca107a1120547081200cd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5e199e6d030f1b6a6addfb00d7f357301bdfe6a10efca107a1120547081200cd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Marina Zoraya\"},\"sameAs\":[\"marina.zoraya@gmail.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/silverfin.com\\\/en-ie\\\/resources\\\/author\\\/marina-zoraya\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Generative AI in Accounting: May Update | Silverfin IE","description":"Discover how generative AI is shaping the future of accounting, from automation to insights. See what\u2019s next for AI in Ireland today.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?","og_description":"Discover how generative AI is shaping the future of accounting, from automation to insights. See what\u2019s next for AI in Ireland today.","og_url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/","og_site_name":"Silverfin","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/getsilverfin\/","article_published_time":"2023-05-31T11:02:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-02-16T12:10:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":284,"url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Marina Zoraya","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@getsilverfin","twitter_site":"@getsilverfin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Marina Zoraya","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/"},"author":{"name":"Marina Zoraya","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#\/schema\/person\/512843d4ce7f43a331390a88652dd52f"},"headline":"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?","datePublished":"2023-05-31T11:02:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-16T12:10:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/"},"wordCount":1208,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg","keywords":["Blog","AI"],"inLanguage":"en-IE"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/","url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/","name":"Generative AI in Accounting: May Update | Silverfin IE","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg","datePublished":"2023-05-31T11:02:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-16T12:10:44+00:00","description":"Discover how generative AI is shaping the future of accounting, from automation to insights. See what\u2019s next for AI in Ireland today.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-IE","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-IE","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/May-update-Whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-AI.jpg","width":720,"height":284,"caption":"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/whats-all-this-talk-about-generative-ai\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"May update: What\u2019s all this talk about generative AI?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#website","url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/","name":"Silverfin","description":"Cloud Post-Accounting and Compliance","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Silverfin","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-IE"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#organization","name":"Silverfin","url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-IE","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Silverfin_VISMA.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Silverfin_VISMA.svg","width":152,"height":45,"caption":"Silverfin"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/getsilverfin\/","https:\/\/x.com\/getsilverfin","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/silverfin\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/#\/schema\/person\/512843d4ce7f43a331390a88652dd52f","name":"Marina Zoraya","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-IE","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e199e6d030f1b6a6addfb00d7f357301bdfe6a10efca107a1120547081200cd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e199e6d030f1b6a6addfb00d7f357301bdfe6a10efca107a1120547081200cd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e199e6d030f1b6a6addfb00d7f357301bdfe6a10efca107a1120547081200cd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Marina Zoraya"},"sameAs":["marina.zoraya@gmail.com"],"url":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/resources\/author\/marina-zoraya\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverfin.com\/en-ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}