Robotic Process Automation

also referred to as: rpa

5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2024 by Kimberly Tan · across every show →

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Dec 20, 2024 bullish

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Tan: AI automation potential is an order of magnitude beyond RPA

“When you think about, like, the world of work that could be intelligently automated away, and the amount of time and savings Both employees and companies can get. It's just like an order of magnitude larger than what is currently possible.”

Kimberly Tan Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 13:14 RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work

Dec 20, 2024 negative

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Tan: Legacy RPA fails 20% of the time, requiring manual intervention

“So RPA is often very good for doing like 80% of the task, but then like 20% of the time that it fails, it's still a manual person who has to come in. So it's just not reliable enough to actually do the full task.”

Kimberly Tan Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 1:48 RIP to RPA: How AI Makes Operations Work

Jun 10, 2025 bullish

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Anant Bhardwaj: AI automation will fully replace legacy RPA

“The bet that we are taking is that AI will drive automation in a significant way. RPA would be fully eaten by AI automation, and the future is likely going to be more of decentralized, federated execution.”

Anant Bhardwaj Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 27:42 Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents

Jun 10, 2025 negative

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Bhardwaj: RPA cannot effectively process unstructured data due to variability

“You can't do robotic process for unstructured data because it's not it's not fixed. They change it. So anything will be very, very brittle.”

Anant Bhardwaj Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 29:36 Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents

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