Rob, CEO of Digit, fed twelve months of revenue data into an AI tool and got an average that turned out wrong when manually calculated. The story shows why you can't trust AI answers without checking them first, even when they sound confident.
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And we had the most fantastic presentation by Rob from Digit. So was it Rob or was this called— no, it was a CEO, I think, of Digit. And he did a presentation at Scaling New Heights. Oh, yeah. He went up there and did this whole thing. He took some balance sheet, took the data off, threw it in, gave all the data for every, every month. And all he asked, it was a simple question. What's the average revenue for this client? Using 12 months of data. And it spit an answer out right away. And he said right to the crowd, he said, there, there's your answer. But if you do the math on a calculator, that's an incorrect answer. It gave an answer, but it didn't give the right answer. And if people are starting to use this tool and it's gonna get better, I mean, it's not, not that it'll never get better. It's learning. It's, it's a, it's a learning system. But you have to— Kind of like the internet was in the beginning. Exactly. It's exactly that.