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Democratizing Artificial Intelligence with UiPath

By : Fanny Ip, Jeremiah Crowley
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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

Chapter 2: Bridging the Gap between RPA and Cognitive Automation

In this chapter, we will explore in detail the benefits of cognitive automation over pure robotic process automation (RPA). It is critical to deep dive into the spectrum of office work to understand the automation technology stack, the gap between RPA and cognitive automation, and the importance of human-machine coordination in making it work. We will also explore many real-life business problems for you to reimagine the art of possible automation potentials.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the spectrum of office work
  • Exploring the gap between RPA and cognitive automation
  • Designing human-machine collaboration with cognitive automation

By the end of the chapter, you will have learned how to approach business problems through a new lens of cognitive automation. You will know how to review automation opportunities holistically and how to design the optimal...