{"id":961,"date":"2015-12-10T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/intelligent-automation-continuum_121015\/"},"modified":"2015-12-10T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:13:00","slug":"intelligent-automation-continuum_121015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/intelligent-automation-continuum_121015\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we mustn’t make the same mistakes with RPA that we made with BPO"},"content":{"rendered":"
Forget the Trump, 2015 has been one helluva year for pontification on big disruptive, and occasionally ridiculous topics.<\/p>\n
Anything robotics, artificial intelligence, the end of work, the end of sanity… the end of pretty much anything<\/em> has been bandied around. Hence, it was refreshing to bring together a host of service buyers and providers in Harvard last week, to dial back into planet earth and really get to the point of where we need to take things.<\/p>\n Glaring into a future, where there is no written rule book, no set curriculum to follow, can be a little daunting. \u00a0So it can’t hurt to take a look at some of the mistakes of our past to create a more long-term, focused strategy to set us in better stead as we embark on this new wave of change and disruption to our cosy little world: \u00a0the Continuum that begins with establishing a rudimentary, trigger-based Robotic Process Automation underbelly, that forms the building blocks for incremental investments in more predictive autonomics and – ultimately – cognitive self-learning capabilities, before reaching a haven of true artificial intelligence (which doesn’t actually exist yet, but we can all dream, right?):<\/p>\n