Our blogposts around the topic “Artificial Intelligence” can be found on this page. Further topics can be found in the category overview.

Understanding AI’s Naivety

It was the French philosopher Voltaire who famously said that you should judge a person by the questions they ask rather than the answers they give. These may be very wise words when it refers to humans, but for artificial intelligence the situation is even simpler: the machine doesn’t need to know what the question […]

Powering AI

The Climate Emergency is the biggest existential risk to our planet and to us. Up until the start of this year, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere was increasing uncontrollably. But, over the past few months, we have all seen the dramatic changes that the restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic have made […]

A Pivotal Time for Facial Recognition

Last year in this blog we looked at the state of facial recognition and concluded that, for its most controversial applications (especially police surveillance), it simply wasn’t accurate enough. Add in the tendency for the algorithms to exhibit ethnic and gender bias, it was clear that the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) needed to […]

Artificial Intelligence in a Post-Covid-19 World

Last month we looked at the role of RPA in helping organizations come out of their Covid-19 isolation, and in this post, we want to focus on the same but for Artificial Intelligence (AI). At the time of writing, there are various degrees of the lockdown restrictions being lifted across Europe, with those countries that […]

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

If you ever read comic books, you will know that the best ever piece of advice to come out of the world of Marvel Comics was when Peter Parker’s (aka Spiderman) Uncle Ben told him that, ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ (Winston Churchill also said it, but it is the Spiderman version we all […]

Looking Beyond AI for the Right Solution

There is an old consulting adage that is often applied when new technologies come along: ‘I’ve got a hammer, so the answer to your problems must be a nail’. This is particularly true of Artificial Intelligence (AI) right now. Many enterprises are asking ‘how can we use AI in our business?’ (or, even more flippantly, […]

When The Future Becomes The Present: The Potential of Artificial Intelligence

Soon, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the industry will be essential. With the market becoming more competitive, companies are forced to resort to new technologies to reduce costs and increase productivity. A preliminary technology to accelerate the adoption of AI in business processes is Robotic Process Automation (RPA), where software robots are programmed […]

The State of Facial Recognition

Facial recognition uses AI machine vision technology to try and match an image of a stranger’s face with one on its database of known people. In theory the technology could be really useful, allowing employees automatic access to offices, criminals to be tracked down, and lost children to be found. And whilst facial recognition has […]

Understanding Your Intelligent Automation Ambitions

It is an adage in life that is also relevant to intelligent automation projects: before you start, understand where you want to end up. Beginning any journey without the end in mind is a sure way to waste time, lose money and frustrate everybody. Creating an Intelligent Automation (IA) Strategy that defines your end goals […]

Where Is the Intelligence in Intelligent Automation?

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that the claims made by marketing departments of what their technology can do are always months, if not years, ahead of what the technology can actually do. This inevitably leads to ‘marketing inflation’ as each vendor tries to show that they are further ahead of the curve than their […]

How to Make Robots Intelligent?

As many people are aware, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a wonderful tool for automating rules-based processes. But, despite the cleverness of the software, those aren’t intelligent robots yet. Effectively, they are dumb. By that we mean that they will do exactly what you tell them to do, again and again and again. Which is perfect […]

Intelligent Automation – Supercharging RPA!

At best estimate, there are 45 software vendors who claim to provide robotic process automation. Most of these do pretty much the same thing at the heart; they automate rules-based, repeatable processes normally carried out by humans So, for anyone looking for just that capability, they are, in theory, spoilt for choice. Robotic Process Automation […]

The Democratisation of Artificial Intelligence

In 2017 we wrote about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can benefit and enhance Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and earlier this year we looked at some ways that AI can help with the actual implementation of RPA. It’s clear that AI has a big part to play in the success of RPA (in what people are […]

Implementing RPA efficiently with AI

In our previous blog post, we discussed all of the different technologies (including humans!) that can be used to support the capabilities of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). In this piece we want to look at a few new technologies that have the potential to make the process of actually implementing RPA a whole lot easier. […]