UiPath’s new orchestrator guides AI agents to follow your enterprise’s rules

By now, many enterprises have begun exploring AI agents and determining whether deploying them is a viable option for their business. But many still equate agents with something most companies have had for years: automation. 

Automation pioneer UiPath sees agents and orchestrating the entire ecosystem — a little differently. 

The company announced its new UiPath Platform for Agentic Automation. However, it made clear that agents are not a new version of robotic process automation (RPA); rather, they are another tool that enterprises can integrate with RPA to complete workflows. 

Daniel Dines, UiPath founder and CEO, told VentureBeat in an interview that agents cannot be fully automated as they are built today.

“The big problem with LLMs today is that they are nondeterministic, so you cannot run them directly in an autonomous fashion,” Dines said. “If you look at most implementations of agents, these are actually chatbots. So ...