In the main dive for today’s episode of Futurum Tech Podcast, we take a look at our recently published research report, The State of Automation 2019: RPA, AI, and Intelligent Automation, developed in partnership with Automation Anywhere. Our research shows that more than half of U.S. companies have implemented some form of automation —either Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or AI-powered Intelligent Automation — and that the majority of those who’ve not yet implemented automation into business operations intend to within not too distant future. We discuss what you can and can’t do with RPA and Intelligent Automation, what you should be using it for and how to most effectively go about that. We also discuss the challenges that our survey respondents shared with us are most common, their expectations for the future, and the role they expect automation will play in their organizations.

THIS WEEK’s FAST THREE (While we normally cover five topics in our “Fast Five” section of the podcast, this week since we devoted so much time to The State of Automation report, we are only covering three topics.)

> Amazon Will Challenge Pentagon’s Award of $10 billion JEDI contract to Microsoft
> How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public
> Salesforce will adopt Microsoft’s Cloud as the Companies Cozy Up

This week's Tech Bites Winner: Giphy has an illicit problem. Giphy, perhaps the biggest image search engine and place users flock to create animated GIFs, has a problem with illicit content. A new report from Israeli online child protection startup L1ght has uncovered a host of toxic content with the Giphy community, including content related to child abuse, rape, white supremacy, and hate speech. And it appears as though the people using the platform to hide this content in plain sight very much know what they’re doing.

Our Crystal Ball: We circle back to automation and the role we predict it will have in businesses moving forward. Tl:dr it’s big!

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The State Of Automation:  RPA, AI, And Intelligent Automation

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