When I began my fascinating journey in the world of programming, computers only had a fraction of the capabilities that today’s smartphones offer. We had to imagine images on the monitor screen, pixel by pixel. My adventure with programming started with assembly language, eventually moving to high-level languages. Even during my computer science studies at the University of Warsaw (MIMUW), I mastered dozens of programming languages. I focused on object-oriented programming, which has now become the standard, as well as on building compilers.
I published a book “AMOS Professional in Practice - anyone can program”, and also served as the programming editor for the magazines ENTER and AMIGA - each with a circulation exceeding 100,000 copies. I implemented CRM and ERP systems, wrote custom software, and among my larger projects was, for example, the Fixed Assets Register at the Military Property Agency (managing assets worth over 1 billion PLN) and the system integrating prints in ACTION company (over 100,000 invoices daily). I also sold over 3,000 licenses for my developed program PKWIU.
I went through subsequent revolutions, seeing and participating in making people’s lives more comfortable and better. I observed how it transformed businesses from manual “manufacturing” to near-full automation. This fascinating experience was found, among others, in the huge International Paper factory in Kwidzyn, where on one side bales of wood entered, and on the other, packaged and branded pallets of paper exited. It was there that I first encountered a “master key” or adhesive tape, integrating the SAP system into the industrial line without the need to modernize the SAP system.
Perhaps this last experience prompted me to establish a startup called G1ANT in London in April 2016, which operates in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) industry. Today, this term is widely known, but at the time I founded the company, we had no idea it would become so trendy. A few years have passed, and now in 2024, we are witnessing another revolution initiated by the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI.
Today, few people doubt that the future belongs to artificial intelligence, which is developing very rapidly, and we are slowly approaching the times of “Real” Robotic Process Automation. By speaking or writing in natural language to a computer or another device, it can understand us and process it into code understandable by the applications or systems used by the organization.
Artificial intelligence can be controlled to some extent to minimize the risk of confabulation and ensure that AI robots do not exceed the specified scope of their tasks. For example, answering customer questions, to later enter data collection and contact mode, and then automatically save it in CRM.
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