Civic hacknight #386 - TaxGPT: Advising Canadians about tax filing (IN-PERSON)

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Topic: Talking Taxes: Advising Canadians about free tax filing

• TaxGPT is a AI-lite friendly chatbot that gives Canadians advice on how to file their taxes for free. Taxes are complex, and one of the main use cases of AI is condensing longform text into easily understood summaries — sounds like a win-win! Well, almost. This talk covers the herky-jerky development of a ChatGPT-backed chatbot: what it's good at, and what to watch out for.

Speaker: Paul Craig

• Paul Craig is a web developer currently living in Ottawa. He's worked for the UK government and the Canadian federal government, and is big into building websites with no business model. Follow Paul on Twitter: @pcraig3.

Join us in person:

• We're meeting at Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St. West)
• Entrance is from the south side of the building, from Nathan Philips Square.
• NOTE: Visitors to City Hall must pass through a metal detector. Sharp objects are not allowed, and bags will be searched.

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

Code of Conduct:

• http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:

• https://link.civictech.ca/chat

Accessibility:

• We're exploring ways to make our hybrid hacknights more accessible. At the moment we provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning.

About Us:

• Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

For more info:

• http://civictech.ca