Technology Magazine February 2020 | Page 58

BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
58 dominated by fine margins , where seconds can have a major impact ,” commented Riadh Dridi , Chief Marketing Officer at Automation Anywhere in a press release . Dening added that “ McLaren will be deploying Automation Anywhere ’ s intelligent digital workers to improve communication and decision making between the race teams and the McLaren HQ in Woking . As part of this partnership , Automation Anywhere will be helping McLaren make faster decisions across the team ’ s race operations as they chase marginal gains on the track . Digital workers will work side-by-side with the race operations team to complete repetitive and manual tasks , so the ultimate goal is to help McLaren create efficiencies , reduce errors and speed up decision making .”
There are problems facing the introduction of AI , though . As Lewis put it , there are already more jobs that require a knowledge of AI than there are people qualified to fill them . “ Right now , the approach is one of firefighting : small teams of experts are called in to deal with bigger issues ,” he explains . It ’ s my hope ,
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