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In 2018, an Uber self-driving test car killed a woman because, though it was programmed to avoid cyclists and pedestrians, it didn’t know what to make of someone walking a bike across the street. These failures, called “edge cases,” can have serious consequences. Machine-learning systems are what researchers call “brittle,” prone to fail when encountering something that isn’t well represented in their training data. You collect as much labeled data as you can get as cheaply as possible to train your model, and if it works, at least in theory, you no longer need the annotators.

Error – An interruption to the workflow has occurred, due to an issue.Annotation remains a foundational part of making AI, but there is often a sense among engineers that it’s a passing, inconvenient prerequisite to the more glamorous work of building models.

For example, an application for insurance coverage that is borderline must be escalated to the senior manager for manual review.

Escalation – in order to facilitate a specific action, a higher-up authority will need to make a decision on the task.

Message – As it is described, messages are being passed via some technology interface, like EDI (Electronic Data or Document Interchange).

Link – Indicates a process belonging to a bigger ecosystem and links off into the direction of different tasks that comprise a new but separate set.

It may also be used on a certain weekday, for instance, every Tuesday, a list is compiled indicating who has cancelled the trial or who are the new free trial registrants. For example, a free trial is offered for 30 days in which a customer has the option to cancel anytime within this window.

Timer – This symbol can identify the start of a timer.

It can initiate a starting point, an intermediate step, or act as the end-point of a specific process. There is a universal symbology to the language that bridges the gap between those in technical development, business analysts and all the way up to the C-Suites execs who can all understand the various sequence of events, activity and information that flows along an array of automated tasks. Instead of having process taken up on a wall, you can create BPMN Process Models where you fit the primary business logic on a single page and then drill down to the next level if you want or need to see the details.

The thing Business Process Modeling Notation brings is standardization and the ability to show who is doing what and when, plus the ability to make process flow paths easier to read by moving the details of a process into a more detailed level. A business process model and notation diagram, (BPMN diagram), is used to build easy-to-read business process model flowcharts, which can be shared across organizations and industries.īPMN diagram symbols are categorized into four main groups: flow objects, connecting objects, swimlanes, and artifacts.