> First, get rid of software that holds your data hostage and cannot be controlled via APIs before you start thinking about “AI”. How do you get your critical

> First, get rid of software that holds your data hostage and cannot be controlled via APIs before you start thinking about “AI”. How do you get your critical data out of such software in the first place? I thought the main use of screen scraping and autohotkey style automation was (or at least should be!) guerrilla data repatriation. (Also cool as this is, I’m always slightly disappointed when I see terms like “robotic process automation” and it’s about scripted GUI interactions rather than using machine learning to optimally control factories.)