The client could copy the database, but the database structure was so complex, they couldn’t make sense of it, and had been working for ten months with limited progress. My colleague’s idea was to use an AI to build JavaScript scripts that scraped the UI. Since the data was presented from the UI, it was in a form that we could understand. It took him a week to extract all the data.
Screen-scraping is one of my top AI use cases of late. Items great for pulling down billing, financial, and all sorts of other info that usually requires manual downloading and fiddling.
I imagine applying it to enterprise data is equally, and even more amazing.
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