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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)
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Section 1: The Basics
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Section 2: The Development Life Cycle with AI Center and Document Understanding
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Section 3: Building with UiPath Document Understanding, AI Center, and Druid

Searching for automation opportunities

Value assurance has never been more important, as organizations are laser-focused on creating immediate benefits from automation initiatives. Therefore, careful consideration should be made when identifying, sizing, and green-lighting automation candidates during the opportunity search. To ensure that the chosen opportunities are successful and realize the benefits advertised, you should be well versed in the characteristics of an automation opportunity, understand when to apply cognitive capabilities, and understand how to recognize the drivers of value automation can create. Once fully versed in the characteristics of an automation opportunity, you can take different approaches to identify an opportunity from a top-down or bottom-up perspective, and then apply your judgment to prioritize the opportunity for further analysis and development.

In this section, we're going to cover the following topics:

  • The characteristics of an...