[yaseer]

Yep, RPA is just User Interface Automation.

Unfortunately, A lot of RPA companies, including UiPath, have co-opted the word RPA into enterprise marketing, alongside words like 'AI', so the words lose meaning. But RPA is just automating the UI, when no API exists.

Disclosure: I'm a co-founder in an RPA startup. I think RPA is a confusing, historical accident of a name.

[honey-badger]

Spot-on! From the beginning, I have hated the term 'RPA'. It reeks of deliberate obfuscation, like putting a shiny package around a used sock.

PS: I checked out Axiom yesterday and am excited to see the problem you're solving. Wish you guys all the best!

[yaseer]

Thanks!

We think UI automation has a lot of potential as a programming paradigm accessible to non-coders. Once RPA hype and noise dies down, perhaps a few signals like that will remain.

[paubric]

context: interned at UiPath on a team doing ML

A lot of unnecessary hype indeed, though you can actually throw in occasional OCR/NER blocks in the workflow you design. Most often it's common NLP tasks on documents being moved around, but also forecasting, etc.