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Bots Enter The Uncharted Territory Of Accounting Compliance

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Bots are marching steadily into the corporate accounting department as professionals feel more comfortable handing tasks to a machine. The more bots make their way into the accounting department, the more concerns arise about jobs, compliance, trust and other industry-unknowns. “This is such new territory for everyone.”

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Burger Bots Could Flip The QSR Industry On Its Head

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Miso’s burger bot can flip burgers twice as fast as a human using its singular arm, and it is powered by deep machine learning — meaning it can use feedback loops to learn from its coworkers in the kitchen as well as from its own mistakes. “The The kitchen can be entirely automated,” Miso Robotics CEO David Zito has said. “We

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Sage Pegs Chatbots As The Future Of SME Accounting

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According to the company, Sage now has more than 20,000 Pegg users just six months after it released the bot. New research from the cloud accounting company, also released Wednesday, found that about half of SMEs are looking to operate their businesses using artificial intelligence and bot technology.

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Read All About It! FinovateFall 2016 in the Press

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FinovateFall 2016 is in the books. So let’s take a look at what the women and men of the purple lanyards had to say about what they saw at FinovateFall 2016 last week. Summary of FinovateFall 2016. FinovateFall Day 2: Bots, Bonds, and a Bit of Blockchain by Grace Noto. AgreementExpress blog. American Banker.

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Russian Hacker Hit With Nine-Year Jail Sentence For Targeting UK Companies

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The reports also coincided with revelations that tens of thousands of Russia-based social media accounts, many of which were automated bots, were posting about #Brexit in the days leading up to the Brexit vote to influence it’s outcome, according to researchers at the Times. 2016 presidential election.

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Chatbot Tracker: Weighing Your Options

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Sometimes seen as a small pop-up window in the lower right-hand corner of the screen welcoming visitors to the site — and offering up assistance or a help link on the contact page — these smart technology bots have traditionally been utilized by retailers for customer service-related issues. ” Again adding value is key. .”

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Chatbot Tracker: Chatbot Growth In The Workplace

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With a reported 30,000 branded chatbots and 6,000 voice-activated skills entering the market in 2016, the future of chatbots in the workforce is strong. This research does, however, show that 61 percent of organizations will be using Apple’s Siri and 66 percent will be using Microsoft’s Cortana by the end of the year.

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