AI Ethics is a critical topic that organizations adopting or building AI systems need to consider. In recent research, Cognilytica analyzed over 60 ethical AI frameworks produced by governmental organizations, corporations, multinational groups, non-profits, and other groups. We learned a lot about the state of those AI Ethics frameworks, and this podcast will share some of those insights that will help you as a builder, user, or participant in the AI ecosystem. Continue reading AI Today podcast...
Apr 28, 2021•59 min•Season 4Ep. 193
To the surprise of some, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a very large funder of many AI projects every year. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering at National Science Foundation. He discusses some of the projects that the NSF has funded. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Moving AI Innovation Forward, Interview with Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy...
Apr 21, 2021•41 min•Season 4Ep. 192
As organizations continue to hire more data scientists it’s important to make sure they are being utilized to emphasize their skill sets. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ylan Kazi, Vice President, Data Science and Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group. He shares with us his thoughts on why it’s important to leading data scientists the right way, what are some of the key traits you look for when hiring data scientists, as well as some of t...
Apr 14, 2021•26 min•Season 4Ep. 191
The Federal Government continues to modernize their management of data, including data governance and analytics. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Justin Marsico who is the Chief Data Officer at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a part of the United States Department of the Treasury. Justin oversees the Fiscal Service’s provision of data to the public, including on USAspending.gov and shared with us some of the unique opportunities around data at the federal level, challenges i...
Apr 07, 2021•33 min•Season 4Ep. 190
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Matt Chambers, Principal Architect & Juan Buhler, Sr. Data Science Engineer at Boon AI. They share with us some challenges they see organizations face today with trying to make sense of their unstructured data, especially video data, as it relates to AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Insights into No-Code ML: Interview with Matt Chambers & Juan Buhler, Boon AI at Cognilytica....
Mar 31, 2021•27 min•Season 4Ep. 189
On the AI Today podcast we often discuss how AI is being applied at the federal level. However many states are also facing many of the same data challenges, hiring needs, and adopting AI technologies as well. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Joy Bonaguro, Chief Data Officer for the state of California. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data and AI at the State level, interview with Joy Bonaguro, CDO of California at Cognilytica....
Mar 24, 2021•38 min•Season 4Ep. 188
As companies begin to move machine learning models into production there are a variety of factors that need to be addressed. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Gideon Mendels, CEO of Comet. He discusses challenges organizations face today with trying to bring ML models into production, why it’s important to have a tool for data scientists and teams to track, compare, explain and optimize experiments and models, and where ML Ops fits into the overal...
Mar 17, 2021•21 min•Season 4Ep. 187
The finance and banking industries have long been ahead of other industries with their adoption of AI. From fraud detection, to roboadvising, to NLP applications the finance industry is adopting every pattern of the Seven Patterns of AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Agus Sudjianto, Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk at Wells Fargo. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Advancing AI in Finance, Interview with Agus Sudjia...
Mar 10, 2021•31 min•Season 4Ep. 186
AI is transforming the federal workplace, allowing employees to work more productively and efficiently. However with this technology comes the need for oversight considerations for policymakers and federal managers related to such issues as the right to privacy, accuracy of results, safety assurances, and algorithmic oversight. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dr. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Dr. Tim Persons, Chief Scientist And Managing Director at U.S. ...
Mar 03, 2021•38 min•Season 4Ep. 185
Successful MLOps not only requires strong collaboration between the AI data team, AI model team, and DevOps it’s the ability to effectively manage and mitigate risk across the deployment, integration, scale, monitoring, and compliance stages of an AI project. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Kfir Yeshayahu who is the Senior Vice President of Products at Veritone. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The transformation of ML Ops, Interview wit...
Feb 24, 2021•25 min•Season 4Ep. 184
As AI continues to move into the mainstream and more companies are looking to bring AI and ML into their organizations, the tools have also evolved to keep up with the changing demand. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer interview Sivan Metzger, Managing Director of MLOps and Governance at DataRobot. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Expanding MLOps Platform, Interview with Sivan Metzger, Managing Director of MLOps and Governance at DataRobot at Co...
Feb 17, 2021•28 min•Season 4Ep. 183
As companies move from building models to buying models the focus shifts from tooling and platforms focused solely on model development to tools and platforms focused on the overall usage, consumption, and management of models. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nir Bar-lev, CEO of ClearML to discuss the overlap between DevOps and MLOps, where ML Ops is fitting into the overall ML ecosystem, and how he thinks it will continue to evolve over the nex...
Feb 10, 2021•35 min•Season 4Ep. 182
As companies move from AI and ML projects as just a concept to actual production they need to find value in these projects. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ahmer Inam and Mark Persaud at Pactera Edge. They discuss some of the challenges they have seen companies face with their data science projects and why they fail to deliver for their executive sponsors and how companies can overcome this. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Human-Centric...
Feb 03, 2021•34 min•Season 4Ep. 181
As companies continue to advance in their adoption of AI and ML, they need a trusted approach to machine learning operations (MLOps). In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Harish Doddi who is CEO of Datatron. He shares with us some of the challenges companies face as they use ML models in production. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: A Trusted Approach to ML Ops, Interview with Harish Doddi, CEO Datatron at Cognilytica....
Jan 27, 2021•37 min•Season 3Ep. 180
In the face of the many of the challenges that 2020 represented, AI has continued at its unrelenting pace of adoption, investment and growth in both the private and public sectors. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share their AI market predictions and forecasts for where AI will make waves in 2021 including the continued worldwide adoption of AI and ML, hot markets including the ML Platforms space, ML Ops players, and data labeling. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: 2021 A...
Jan 20, 2021•50 min•Season 4Ep. 179
On the AI Today podcast we often discuss how AI is being applied at the federal level. However many states are also applying automation and AI technologies as well. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dorman Bazzell, Chief Data Officer for the state of North Dakota. He shares with us some of the unique challenges around data, data science and data privacy at the state level. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data and AI in the state of North Dakota, Interview with Dorman Bazzell...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 178
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we wanted to highlight our upcoming Machine Learning Lifecycle 2021 Conference taking place Jan 26-28, 2021. The 5 main areas of focus for sessions and content during the conference include: ML Model Development, ML Model Management, ML Operations (MLOps), ML Model Governance, and General Sessions Related to the ML Lifecycle. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Machine Learning Lifecycle 2021 Conference Preview at Cognilytica....
Jan 06, 2021•16 min•Season 4Ep. 177
With 2020 quickly (thankfully) fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to reflect on the year that was including looking at our predictions for 2020 and see how accurate they were, some of the big AI news, use cases and activity. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss some of the big newsmakers and insights from this year in the world of AI as well as some of the highlight episodes from 2020. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: A Look Back at AI in 2020 at Cognilytica....
Dec 30, 2020•43 min•Season 4Ep. 176
Machine learning systems are core to enabling each of the seven patterns of AI. Machine learning platforms facilitate and accelerate the development of machine learning models by providing functionality that combines many necessary activities for model development and deployment. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share high level details for the recent ML Platforms Report 2020 report. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Machine Learning (ML) Platforms 2020 – A Market Update ...
Dec 23, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 175
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the pharmaceutical and health care industries. No doubt with the recent global pandemic AI and machine learning is being put to use in the fight against the pandemic. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Subroto Mukherjee, Head of Innovation and Emerging Technology, Americas at GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in Pharma, Interview with Subroto Mukherj...
Dec 16, 2020•33 min•Season 4Ep. 174
The energy sector has long used data methods and various technologies to make processes more efficient. However, in heavily regulated industries such as the energy industry there can be some unique challenges to technology adoption. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Ron Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch interivew Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, who is Technology Fellow and the Chief Data Scientist at Halliburton. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Energy Sector Adoption of AI, Interview with Dr. ...
Dec 09, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 173
The pace of worldwide AI adoption continues to accelerate. AI is transforming just about every single industry and transforming the way humans work, live, and interact with each other. It’s no surprise then that countries see this technology as so important they are creating their own country level AI strategies. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Gergely Szertics who is leading the transformative programs in the AI strategy for Hungary. Cont...
Dec 02, 2020•31 min•Season 4Ep. 172
The US Department of Defense (DoD) takes the topics of topics of Ethics, transparency, and Ethics Policy very seriously. A few years ago the DoD stood up the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, also referred to as the JAIC, to help figure out how to best move forward with this transformative technology. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Alka Patel, who is Head of AI Ethics Policy at Department of Defense, Joint AI Center. Continue reading ...
Nov 25, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 171
You may have seen headlines in the news about GPT-3. But, what exactly is it, and, why is it important? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what GPT-3 is, how it came about, what we can do with it, and the future of GPT-3. Show Notes: GPT-3 Creative Fiction GPT-3 Examples List of free sites/programs that are powered by GPT-3 and can be used now without a waiting list Continue reading AI Today Podcast: What is GPT-3 and why is it important? at Co...
Nov 18, 2020•39 min•Season 4Ep. 169
The General Services Administration (GSA) has been a very forward thinking agency in the US Federal Government. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Emily Murphy, Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA). She shares with us how is AI helping with GSA’s mission, what role the Center of Excellence is playing at the GSA, and some of the unique opportunities the public sector has around AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI at...
Nov 10, 2020•28 min•Season 4Ep. 170
AI technologies have been positively impacting a number of industries, and medicine and healthcare is one of these such industries. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Gil Alterovitz, Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He shares how how AI is impacting the VA, details about recently created the National Artificial Intelligence Institute at the VA, and how AI will provide benefits to veterans. Contin...
Nov 04, 2020•27 min•Season 4Ep. 168
Over the last decade, data and analytics has grown to be more than just a quantitative support function. In this episode of the AI Today we interview Shiv Misra who is the Head of Medicare Retention Analytics at CVS Health. He has a very diverse background working at multiple large organizations. He shares with us how these various companies have approached data, some of the insights and challenges for dealing with data and AI from a healthcare and insurance perspectives, and more. Continue read...
Oct 28, 2020•30 min•Season 4Ep. 167
Data is increasingly playing an important role at organizations, and especially financial institutions. Data privacy is increasingly becoming an important topic and something that should be considered through all stages of the data lifecycle and ML model lifecycle. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Rajeev Sambyal who is Director, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at BNY Mellon. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How Data Privacy is Impacting AI – Interview with Rajeev Sam...
Oct 21, 2020•22 min•Season 4Ep. 166
Retailers are turning to artificial intelligence and data science to help solve challenging E-commerce problems. From product recommendation systems to logistics and supply management, AI is helping in a variety of ways. In this AI Today podcast episode we interview Khalifeh Al Jadda, Director of Core Data Science at The Home Depot. He shares with us how The Home Depot is using data science, AI, and ML to help solve challenging e-commerce problems for HomeDepot, some opportunities retail operati...
Oct 14, 2020•39 min•Season 3Ep. 165
On the AI Today podcast we often discuss how AI is being applied at the federal level. However many states are also applying automation and AI technologies as well. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He shares will us how automation, advanced data analytics, and AI play an increasing role in state government, some unique challenges around data at the state level, some interesting or surprising insights you can s...
Oct 07, 2020•41 min•Season 4Ep. 164
