RPA: Payoff or Pitfall?

October 14, 2019

RPA has elements of artificial intelligence, but while AI attempts to simulate human intelligence broadly, RPA is more of a tool for automating tasks. The software is becoming more sophisticated, though. The latest generation of tools even monitors users’ keystrokes as they interact with applications and identifies tasks that are candidates for automation. Some observers consider RPA to be a sort of gateway drug for AI.

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