In this week’s episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Doba Parushev, Senior Associate at Edison Partners. It’s no secret that companies with an AI focus has been receiving lots of funding these days and Edison Partners is a very active VC firm in the AI industry. It’s always interesting to get VCs perspectives on the market and how new technologies are trending. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #43: A VC’s Perspective on AI: Interview with Doba Parushev, Edison Partners at Cognilytica....
Jun 27, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 43
In this week’s episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Antoine Desmet, Analytics Manager at Komatsu. Many people might not realize just how much technology is involved in mining. We discuss the concept of the “Digital Mine” and how Komatsu uses Internet of Things (IoT) in combination with AI and ML to enable a large range of capabilities. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #42: AI in the Digital Mine: Interview with Antoine Desmet, Komatsu at Cognilytica....
Jun 20, 2018•28 min•Season 1Ep. 42
In this week’s episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jorge Sanchez, Director of Product Strategy at Appian. It seems that everyone these days is taking notice of AI. We discuss how AI is transforming modern enterprises and how low-code platforms like Appian can help reduce the dependency on highly technical staff to build applications and greatly reduce the time to go from application concept to deployment. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #41: Appian’s Low-code AI Environment: Interview...
Jun 13, 2018•19 min•Season 1Ep. 41
In this week’s episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Oliver Mitchell who is a Founding Partner of Autonomy Ventures and syndicated writer and host of local tech events in NYC. As a seasoned professional who has been involved in tech for 20+ years, Oliver shares insights into the future of the AI industry, with a unique focus on hardware and robotics. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #40: Interview with Oliver Mitchell, Autonomy Ventures at Cognilytica....
Jun 06, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Artificial Intelligence is on most everyone’s radar these days. And it’s no different with governments as well. In this podcast we interview Michael Hayes, Senior Manager of Government Affairs at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA.) We discuss laws and regulations surrounding AI, why it’s important to create workable definitions now for various terms related to AI (such as defining narrow AI), and where he sees AI taking us in the years to come. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #39: Inter...
May 30, 2018•18 min•Season 1Ep. 39
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and in all industries. In this podcast, we interview long-time AI researcher and thought leader Dragos Margineantu, AI Chief Technologist at Boeing, who shares with us how Boeing is using AI and Machine Learning (ML) for its operations, manufacturing, supply chain, and Internet of Things (IoT) interactions and some thoughts on what the future of autonomous aircraft might be. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #38: Interview with Dragos Margine...
May 23, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Ever wonder how fully autonomous vehicles at Level 5 on the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) classification will impact your life? How will the way you live, work, interact socially, and care for the needy, disabled and elderly change when vehicles that can drive themselves safely from point to point and be beckoned at any time become prevalent? Continue reading AI Today Podcast #37: Life with Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles at Cognilytica....
May 16, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Companies of all sorts are increasing their investment in AI. Toyota has a wide range of applications of AI, so it’s no surprise that they are interested in helping to spur further growth in the industry by investing in early stage startups that are focused on AI and Machine Learning technology. In this podcast, we interview Jim Adler, Founding Managing Director, of Toyota AI Ventures. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #36: Interview with Jim Adler, Toyota AI Ventures at Cognilytica....
May 09, 2018•21 min•Season 1Ep. 36
In this wide ranging podcast, hear from Professor Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor at Babson College, fellow of MIT initiative on digital economy, and senior advisor to Deloitte’s Analytics & AI practice. Tom Davenport recently wrote a piece for the Harvard Business Review on “Artificial Intelligence for the Real World”, as well as the widely promoted “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #35: Interview with Tom Davenport, Babson College, ...
May 02, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Occupational fraud is not a small issue. On average, a company loses 5% of its revenues to employee financial fraud each year, with the annual median loss at $140,000 and over 20% of companies reporting losses of $1 million or more. The key to keeping a lid on this fraud is identifying the fraud before it takes too much of a bite out of the company’s bottom line, or even further, to put processes and controls in place that automatically audits, monitors, and accepts or rejects transactions that ...
Apr 25, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 34
For our podcast listeners and followers, we have a special treat for you on this podcast. Be our special virtual guest and listen to an expert panel from the Conference on Technology and Future Economy 2018 talk about AI and Blockchain. Moderated by Professor Jim Liew (Johns Hopkins University), panelists were Reem El Seed (Deloitte), Kathleen Walch(Cognilytica), Jose Arrieta(US Department of Health & Human Services [HHS] formerly with the General Services Administration [GSA]), David Martens (D...
Apr 24, 2018•52 min
How exactly do you define intelligence? Professor Alex Wissner-Gross, President and Chief Scientist at Gemedy and Fellow at Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science has an answer. In this podcast, we interview Professor Wissner-Gross not only about his equation for defining intelligence, but also his thoughts that we need new challenges around data sets, as he believes data sets will get us to our goals of intelligence over algorithms. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #33: Interview ...
Apr 18, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and all its various details including Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning is not easy. So it’s always a great delight when someone like Siraj Raval can explain these concepts and work through them in a practical way on his YouTube channel, and his new School of AI. In this podcast, we talk about the importance of data for AI, his thoughts on the future of AI, the connection between AI and blockchain, China’s adoption of AI, and the role of ML and ot...
Apr 11, 2018•22 min•Season 1Ep. 32
One of the other trends making the news and getting lots of attention is Blockchain. Proponents of blockchain claim that it will have fundamental, ground-breaking impact on all industries, changing the way that we transact with one another. Blockchain will enable greater degrees of transparency, trust, and decentralized control where governments and companies can’t own or manipulate the data at their will. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #31: AI and Blockchain — Double the Hype or Double the V...
Apr 04, 2018•18 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Every once in a while we have a podcast interview with someone that really makes us rethink some of the popular positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). This podcast’s interview with Luis Perez-Breva, faculty director of innovation teams at MIT’s School of Engineering and working with MIT Sloan School of Management, was one of those that really got us thinking about the relationship between data and Machine Learning and between Machine Learning and AI. Continue readin...
Mar 28, 2018•23 min•Season 1Ep. 30
On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an autonomous Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian crossing the road — the first fatal autonomous vehicle accident on a public road to occur. We’ve now crossed the realm from the theoretical of what could happen in this scenario to the reality of the situation actually happening. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #29: The First Autonomous Vehicle Fatality — Now What? at Cognilytica....
Mar 21, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Buckle your seatbelts. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer explain their vision for what the AI-Enabled Future looks like. Cognilytica believes that AI will impact all aspects of business, personal, and social life, and in this podcast, they explain the four major aspects in which AI will impact our every day lives. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #028: The AI-Enabled Future at Cognilytica....
Mar 14, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 28
AI is impacting all industries and aspects of society, and music is no exception. In this AI Today podcast, we interview YouTube Celebrity, actress, and musician Taryn Southern who has released an album entirely produced and composed by AI called “I AM AI”. We discuss the four (and maybe even five) tools that Taryn used to produce this album as well as how easy it is for creatives to get started with AI in composing and working with music. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #027: AI in Music – In...
Mar 07, 2018•19 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Chatbots, er… maybe we really mean Conversational Interfaces… are becoming more and more ubiquitous and part of our every day business and consumer lives. There’s a wide variety of both text- and voice-based conversational interfaces and devices. But the ones we’re most familiar with are the voice-based ones that sit on our countertops and office desks. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #026: Cognilytica Tested Voice Assistants, And You Might Be Surprised by the Results at Cognilytica....
Feb 28, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In this podcast, we interview Matt Gardner who heads digital strategy for the St. Louis Blues professional hockey team (NHL). The St. Louis Blues have implemented an AI-powered Facebook Messenger bot tool to enhance the fan and spectator experience. Matt realized that fans want to be engaged through social media moreso than websites and email. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #025: Interview with Matt Gardner, St. Louis Blues (NHL Hockey Team) – Facebook Chatbot Fan engagement at Cognilytica....
Feb 21, 2018•19 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In this podcast, we are thrilled to interview Ofer Ronen, who is a general manager of Chatbase, which is a special project within the Google 120 internal project incubator. Chatbase is pioneering the space of chatbot analytics, and with the backing of Google it’s sure to be dominant in the market. In this podcast, we talk with Ofer about Chatbase, so-called “UMM” errors in chatbots, and also how the Google Area 120 internal incubator works to provide a hybrid startup / large company experience. ...
Feb 15, 2018•15 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In today’s podcast, we’ll address some interesting hot topics that have recently been making news in the AI industry. In particular, Cognilytica senior analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer talk about Hanson Robotics’ Sophia Robot that’s been making significant waves in popular media and press. We talk about whether Sophia is really advanced, how it’s helping … or not… the field of AI, and if it’s making advances in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Continue reading AI T...
Feb 07, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is making significant improvements into company’s operations by replacing rote human activity with automated tasks. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to give this new engine of productivity a gigantic boost. Systems that leverage machine learning (ML) to dynamically adapt to new information and data will shift these systems from mere robots that automate processes to Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) tools that can significantly impact the face of the kno...
Jan 31, 2018•21 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts interview Santiago Braje, Global Head of Credit Trading at ING, who is the primary lead of “Project Katana”, a special AI-driven internal project funded by ING’s innovation fund. The goal of project Katana is to provide an Augmented Intelligence platform that assists bond traders in market making. The primary problem they are solving is how to respond to request to bond clients where there isn’t a central exchange and orders are done over the counter. Contin...
Jan 26, 2018•20 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Many see the future of artificial intelligence (AI) as the replacement of human activities with fully autonomous agents, freeing up or replacing existing human labor to provide greater value for the organization. However, for many companies, fully substituting autonomous agents for their human counterparts is not technically possible at the moment and also may not be feasible or practical. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #020: Augmented Intelligence at Cognilytica....
Jan 18, 2018•14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
To solve the needs of customers trying to evaluate the constantly changing landscape of AI solutions, we’re introducing the Cognilytica AI Positioning Matrix (CAPM)™. The goals of the CAPM matrix are two-fold: identify for each particular application of AI, what the “sweet spot” of required complexity for AI solutions are and how broadly applicable to a range of AI problem areas that solution needs to be; and position various solutions against that same matrix. Continue reading AI Today Podcast ...
Jan 10, 2018•17 min•Season 1Ep. 19
2018 is here! And we expect it to be a significant year for AI advancement. In particular, we have eight predictions that we believe will come to fruition in this upcoming year. Listen to this podcast and check out the accompanying article to hear about what we believe 2018 has in store for AI and the industry as a whole. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #018: Cognilytica AI Predictions for 2018 at Cognilytica....
Jan 05, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 18
E-commerce has fundamentally changed the nature of retail. The Internet and the world of e-commerce that was created and then mobile has made it such that you can now go from wanting an item to having it in a matter of hours without ever stepping foot outside your home or office and you also have access to a much larger selection of goods. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #017: Assistant-Enabled Commerce (AEC) at Cognilytica....
Dec 27, 2017•22 min•Season 1Ep. 17
The more we involve AI in our daily lives, the more we need to be able to trust the decisions that autonomous systems make. Right now, too much of what AI systems do are a “black box”. We have little visibility into how decisions are being made, conclusions drawn, objects identified, and more. AI black boxes are scary when the decisions they make impact people personally. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #016: Explainable AI (XAI) at Cognilytica....
Dec 20, 2017•14 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The more we involved AI in our daily lives, the more we need to be able to trust the decisions that these systems make. Right now, too much of what AI systems do are a “black box”. We have little visibility into how decisions are being made, conclusions drawn, objects identified, and more. As the consequences of mistakes become more significant, it becomes more important to have visibility into the inner workings of AI decision-making, or in other words, AI Explainability. Continue reading AI To...
Dec 13, 2017•19 min•Season 1Ep. 15
