Glossary
Key terms in AI-driven automation.
- Agent
- A software system that pursues a goal by observing its environment and taking actions.
- Computer-use agent
- An AI agent that operates a computer through its graphical interface using mouse and keyboard actions.
- RPA (robotic process automation)
- Software bots that repeat rule-based tasks in applications by mimicking user actions.
- Automation
- Using technology to perform tasks with minimal human intervention.
- GUI
- Graphical user interface: windows, buttons and forms that people operate visually.
- Selector
- An identifier a script uses to find an element on screen or in a page.
- Screenshot grounding
- Linking a model's understanding of a screenshot to exact on-screen positions to click or type.
- Accessibility tree
- Structured data that operating systems and browsers expose about on-screen elements.
- Human in the loop
- A design where a person reviews or approves certain actions before they happen.
- Attended / unattended automation
- Bots that run alongside a user versus bots that run on their own on a schedule or trigger.
- Workflow
- A defined sequence of steps that completes a business task.
- Audit log
- A record of what an automated system observed and did, for review and compliance.