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Jan Scholz

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Ryan Marchildon
Xiyang Chen
Jan Scholz
Ryan Marchildon, Xiyang Chen, Jan Scholz

How to Succeed at Automating Workflows through Intelligent Content Extraction

When we think automation, we think digitization. But ironically, the digitization of text is not enough to automate the tasks we care about. It might seem simple to extract information from web pages, PDF forms, emails, and word documents, because they can be easily read by a computer. However, the unstructured nature of most text documents effectively locks their information away from straightforward automatic processing.

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Aneesh Datta
Jan Scholz
Aneesh Datta, Jan Scholz

How to succeed at AI Product Development

Going by how companies market themselves and what the media reports, it seems Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days. However, despite the hype, there is very little actual use of AI in production today. Sure, there are companies such as Google and Amazon that use AI in their products to assist you in writing your email replies or recommending products you might be interested in. However, most people still go through their entire day without getting help from or delegating work to an AI. Why is that? Where are all the AIs we keeping hearing about?

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Jan Scholz
Jan Scholz

Pipelines to the Rescue: How to Avoid Proliferating Artifacts

Does this problem sound familiar to you? You save a Word document as 'v1.doc', then make some changes and save the new version as 'v2.doc'. A colleague might email back some changes, then rename that document to 'v2John.doc' destroying the whole idea of a well-defined genealogy of documents. As the deadline approaches you save the document as 'final.doc', dreading the inevitable, ever-growing 'finalfinal...' as hectic last minute changes are made.