Fall event highlight - UiPath reframes enterprise AI with controlled agency, and the redemption of RPA bots

Despite my piece lambasting AI agent (over)hype, I am not anti-agent, even if "agentic" is low on my list of favorite buzzwords. I'm just pushing for more precision on the pros and cons - and use case design. Most enterprise events fell short of that this fall.

But as I wrote in UiPath Forward - where does agentic AI go from here, and is RPA still relevant?, UiPath shared a different narrative - one where old school RPA can execute transactions with certainty where needed, alongside newer agent technology perhaps orchestrating, but not trying to square peg -> round hole the conversation.

No questions about this part: LLM technology is vastly superior at dealing with unstructured data than RPA bots. AI agents are not a new thing, but generative AI agents do open up new possibilities, not just in autonomy and orchestration, but in their ability to parse a wider range ...