Tax AI
Tax AI
[Cueball is sitting, hands on his knees, in his office chair at his desk reading a message on the screen of his laptop. The message is shown above the laptop an is indicated to be on the screen with a zigzag line starting at a starburst on the screen.] Laptop: You may claim up to 1040 defendants on your seitan local income tax for fiscal year 20202 by taking the standard deduckling and atomizing your clams.
[Caption below the panel:] I used a neural net to prepare my tax returns, but I think I cut off its training too early.

The deadline for filing tax returns in the United States is April 15, so many people in the US are already in the process of filing their taxes at the time of this comic's publication. Traditionally, people used tax provider companies, but it is becoming more popular to use tax preparation software, such as TurboTax or a service from the Free File Alliance , which helps to fill in the tax forms after a user enters their income information and deductions for the year.
In this comic, Cueball has attempted to train an artificial neural net to prepare his US tax return , but it has made several comical errors, purportedly because it was not trained extensively enough.  Most of the errors consist of malapropisms , words that sound almost the same but mean very different things switched for comic effect.  This suggests Cueball trained the neural net by talking to it.
The title "Tax AI" can be considered a pun, either referencing the AI software Cueball just trained to prepare his tax return, or an exhortation to tax AI entities, as a possible slogan supporting Robot tax .
The title text references 2173: Trained a Neural Net , which indicates that getting a human to do something is basically using a "pretrained neural net". Cueball has chosen to use a local tax provider to help him file his taxes, aka a "pretrained neural net" in the form of a human named Greg.
Randall also "trained" humans to do his tax returns in 1566: Board Game . Tax returns and the troubles of filling them out were also the subjects of 1971: Personal Data and 1977: Paperwork .
[Cueball is sitting, hands on his knees, in his office chair at his desk reading a message on the screen of his laptop. The message is shown above the laptop an is indicated to be on the screen with a zigzag line starting at a starburst on the screen.] Laptop: You may claim up to 1040 defendants on your seitan local income tax for fiscal year 20202 by taking the standard deduckling and atomizing your clams.
[Caption below the panel:] I used a neural net to prepare my tax returns, but I think I cut off its training too early.
