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Democratizing Artificial Intelligence with UiPath

By : Fanny Ip, Jeremiah Crowley
Book Image

Democratizing Artificial Intelligence with UiPath

By: Fanny Ip, Jeremiah Crowley

Overview of this book

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables enterprises to optimize business processes that are probabilistic, highly variable, and require cognitive abilities with unstructured data. Many believe there is a steep learning curve with AI, however, the goal of our book is to lower the barrier to using AI. This practical guide to AI with UiPath will help RPA developers and tech-savvy business users learn how to incorporate cognitive abilities into business process optimization. With the hands-on approach of this book, you'll quickly be on your way to implementing cognitive automation to solve everyday business problems. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will help you understand the power of AI and give you an overview of the relevant out-of-the-box models. You’ll learn about cognitive AI in the context of RPA, the basics of machine learning, and how to apply cognitive automation within the development lifecycle. You’ll then put your skills to test by building three use cases with UiPath Document Understanding, UiPath AI Center, and Druid. By the end of this AI book, you'll be able to build UiPath automations with the cognitive capabilities of intelligent document processing, machine learning, and chatbots, while understanding the development lifecycle.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
5
Section 2: The Development Life Cycle with AI Center and Document Understanding
10
Section 3: Building with UiPath Document Understanding, AI Center, and Druid

Understanding the current state

Let's start this use case by learning a little about the current state of the process. Every day, the accounting team of Company ABC receives invoices submitted by vendors as part of its procure-to-pay (P2P) process, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.5 – Company ABC's P2P process

As defined by Company ABC, vendors must send invoices to a central inbox that the accounting team maintains. As the accounting team receives these invoices, they are reviewed for correctness and entered into their system of record, where they are reconciled and forwarded to Accounts Payable (AP) for payment, if all is correct.

Company ABC has been doing extremely well this year, thus has been purchasing more goods and services than in years past. This influx in purchasing has put a strain on the accounting team as it tries to maintain an efficient P2P process. A portion of this strain has been caused by the increase...