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Machine Learning as a Service: the Digital Exchange and Web APIs

Most of how we interact with ML today is done through web APIs. Even when using large language model (LLM) chatbots through a web browser, web API calls are being made in the background to give us the reply. More often than not, your BP Processes will also use web APIs to obtain the results of an ML prediction that’s hosted online.

In this chapter, we’re going to explore the most popular ML web APIs for IA, how to find them on BP’s Digital Exchange (DX), how to connect them to BP, and how to build one yourself so that predictions can be made in your automation use cases. More specifically, we will cover the following:

  • Understanding what the most common ML services are, some ...

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