Welcome to the July edition of AI Pulse! This month, we’re tackling groundbreaking ideas and peeling back the curtain on AI’s next big moves.
Ever wondered what happens when AI systems aren’t just fast, but thoughtful? Check out the fascinating article on the philosophical shift toward AI with a conscience, an approach that’s less “Skynet gone rogue” and more your sidekick for making complex, informed decisions.
And speaking of agents, meet the new generation of AI agents, digital collaborators that don’t just answer questions, but streamline workflows, and basically, make boring tasks poof! disappear. However, you need to give them the insights they need to understand your processes. Measure twice, cut once. Automate with impact.
Finally, we break down the secret sauce behind Responsible AI, the not-so-hidden fuel for enterprise success. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this one.
As AI agents gain autonomy, the real test isn’t speed - it’s awareness. Koralus suggests in his paper “The Philosophic Turn for AI Agents“ that we should design AI systems that help people explore and understand, rather than push them toward a single answer. Instead of steering users to a fixed outcome, AI should support open thinking and informed decision-making.
This philosophical turn aligns closely with the next wave of AI in enterprise:
Agents must understand documents in depth - not just parse text, but extract intent and meaning.
They also need process insight, recognizing how work actually unfolds and why each decision matters.
When these capabilities come together, AI agents transcend task automation - they become thoughtful collaborators, enriching human judgment with context, clarity, and accountability.
We’re in the midst of something truly exciting: AI agents (true, intelligent digital coworkers) radically transforming how we work. Not just by answering questions, but by doing: booking travel, filing expenses, sorting documents, coordinating systems. Imagine automating the admin so you can focus on the creative, the strategic, the human. You go to the beach, the agent handles the boring stuff.
But I have a plea to all tech people: we need to treat the word agent with the weight it deserves. Not every chatbot is an agent. Not every LLM in a workflow earns that title. Instead of chasing hype, let’s channel our energy into building agents that actually live up to the name: autonomous, able to collaborate, and built to last.
Getting there means recognizing agents as systems of many cogs: LLMs for reasoning, Document AI for understanding, Process Intelligence for context and control. If we get that right, agents won't just help us work faster. They’ll change what work feels like.
Responsible AI is often viewed as a compliance requirement or a regulatory obligation. But, its benefits extend far beyond risk mitigation, accelerating decision-making and value creation.
Accenture reports organizations that are creating enterprise-level value are 2.7x more likely to have responsible AI principles and governance in place across the gen AI lifecycle. In fact, 49% of companies view responsible AI as a key contributor to AI-related revenue growth for their firm.
Responsible AI must be embedded by design, supported by platforms for monitoring and approached with a growth mindset.
Across all tasks, using generative AI reduces the time taken to complete them by at least 60%.
While technical and analytical tasks like troubleshooting, programming, and technology design saw significant productivity gains, the Stanford University and the World Bank found even human-centric tasks like instructing, management of personnel, and judgment and decision-making benefited from AI tools. Charted: Productivity Gains from Using AI.
ABBYY University Celebrates More Than 18,000 Graduates as Demand for Purpose-built AI for Automation Increases.
ABBYY University, a free virtual learning program, offers technical training for ABBYY’s portfolio of Document AI and Process AI solutions.
As interest in AI-powered automation continues to grow, so does participation in ABBYY University. The number of graduates spiked by 20% within the past year as more organizations turned to ABBYY’s industry-leading intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions FlexiCapture and Vantage, and process intelligence solution, Timeline, to accelerate and improve the outcomes of their intelligent automation initiatives.
ABBYY: ABBYY Wins Newsweek AI Impact Award for Best Outcomes in Accounting > "We are honored to be recognized by the Newsweek AI Impact Awards for the success our customers achieve using ABBYY Document AI. This win underscores our leadership in intelligent automation and commitment to helping businesses harness the power of AI," commented Ulf Persson, CEO at ABBYY. Read the Press Release.
AI Journal: AI in business: Hype or real necessity? > Explore the real-world impact of AI in business, from navigating the hype to its practical applications. Learn insights from AI expert Maxime Vermeir on how AI is transforming industries, improving processes, and creating new opportunities for businesses. Read the article in AI Journal.
Our partner Ashling helped a fast-food franchise with 40,000 global locations automate the processing of commercial leasing agreements with an innovative solution that utilized ABBYY Vantage, Blue Prism RPA, and OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo. Using these fit-for-purpose technologies, they were able to process 30,000 lease agreements, extract from 350 fields, and achieve 82% accuracy. Watch and see how it was done.
Document Automation Across Industries: Use Cases and Best Practices
Document automation makes tasks more accurate and less time-consuming. This blog covers use cases across eight industries. See how you can benefit from Document AI.
Guest blog by our partner and ABBYY MVP Mike Stuhley, Formtran
ABBYY IDP uses the latest AI to automatically extract required fields from pharmacy receipts with a high degree of accuracy. Learn how ABBYY + Formtran work together to help businesses and organizations to save time, cut costs, and ensure accuracy..
Next-Generation Document Automation: Combining Document AI and Generative AI
The key to leveraging the full potential of AI-powered business process automation is not in selecting either IDP or LLMs—but in designing workflows that use the right AI at the time. Want to understand how?
Operationalizing AI Compliance Obligations in Financial Services
This white paper from Law + Data, co-authored by ABBYY’S AI Ethics Evangelist Andrew Pery, presents a comprehensive look at how process mining helps financial institutions achieve transparent, compliant AI-based processes.
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