Knowledge graphs and other ways to encode the relationship between data concepts are putting common sense into AI and machine learning. In this podcast, we interview Chaitan Baru, Senior Advisor, Data Science Research Initiatives at University of California San Diego, and formerly serving a four year rotation at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he helped with a number of initiatives including the Big Data program and Data Science-related activities. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #...
Jan 30, 2019•34 min
One of the biggest challenges with AI is making sense of the decisions made by black box machine learning algorithms. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Steve Eglash, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University to discuss Explainable AI, Responsible AI, and how to get AI systems to behave in a more testable, provable, and error-free way. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #...
Jan 23, 2019•16 min
AI and machine learning are impacting just about every industry, and the oil and gas industry is no exception. AI and ML are helping companies with unstructured content and data, as well as augmenting human jobs without replacing them. Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Joel Hron, CTO at ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #72: Interview with Joel Hron, CTO, Thoug...
Jan 16, 2019•12 min
2018 proved to be a great year for AI-related technology and companies alike. We saw countries across the world adopt AI strategies, VC funding for AI focused startups go gangbusters, and industries of all types from retail, pharmaceutical, restaurants, logistics, healthcare and so many more benefit from AI technologies. If you haven’t heard our recap of 2018 AI related news makers and market shakers, you should definitely go and listen to that (after this podcast of course). Continue reading AI...
Jan 09, 2019•34 min
2018 is over and boy was it a crazy year! AI continued to show its strength in 2018, and certainly shows no signs of slowing as we make our way to 2019. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts look back on the year and reflect on some of 2018’s biggest AI news, trends and use cases. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #70: 2018 — Cognilytica’s AI Year in Review at Cognilytica....
Jan 02, 2019•40 min
Cognilytica analyst Kathleen Walch recently moderated a panel in November 2018 on “Driving Digital Transformation through AI and Deep Learning”. The following recording is the live panel discussion. We discuss fundamental buildings blocks needed for building a digital organization, process changes brought about from AI technologies that companies of all sizes are adopting, examples of digital transformation projects that depend upon AI to succeed, and more! Continue reading AI Today #69: Driving...
Dec 26, 2018•49 min
AI and machine learning are being used in almost every industry, and the oil and gas industry is no exception. Want to know the various ways in which the oil and gas industry is adopting AI? Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Catalina Herrera, Director of Education and Enablement at ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #68: Interview with Catalina Herrera, Director...
Dec 19, 2018•9 min
Robots are gaining adoption across a wide range of industries. Recently, the Smithsonian Institution has started to use Softbank Robotics’ Pepper robot to add value to the the visitor museum experience. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch interview Kristi Delich, Deputy Director, Office of Visitor Services, Smithsonian Institution on how Pepper is being used at the museum, potential future uses, and observations from how the general public interacts with a r...
Dec 12, 2018•12 min
Curious how industrial technology companies are adopting Artificial Intelligence, robotics, and cognitive technology into their product lines and how these technologies help with innovation processes? In this podcast Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Frank DeSantis, VP of Breakthrough Innovation at Stanley, Black & Decker, Inc., and dig deeper into how AI and cognitive tech is changing the landscape for industrial goods and how these emerging technologies will ch...
Dec 05, 2018•11 min
Interested in knowing how AI and machine learning can process documents over a century old and still gain understanding from the text? Want to know how the oil and gas industry is adopting AI? Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nick Vandivere, CEO of ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #65: Interview with Nick Vandivere, CEO, ThoughtTrace at Cognilytica....
Nov 28, 2018•16 min
Machines are able learn how to process images and text and extract intelligence from those images and text. But they still don’t understand the images of know the meanings of words. We’re still at the early days of AI with respect to common sense and real natural language understanding. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interviewCatherine Havasi, Chief Strategy Officer of Luminoso on the current state of the art with Natural Language and what Luminoso is d...
Nov 21, 2018•20 min
Interested in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality (AR), and Virtual Reality (VR)? Curious how AI is being used in the entertainment, gaming, and media industries to enhance the overall experience? Listen to this podcast where Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Mariana Acuña Costa, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Opaque Studios as she shares insights into the use of AI in these various industries, how AI can help with content crea...
Nov 14, 2018•20 min
Film, media, and entertainment industries are using AI and machine learning technologies to enhance and change the way that entertainment is produced, developed, and delivered. In this Cognilytica AI Today podcast, hear from Hanno Basse, Chief Technology Officer of 20th Century Fox Film Corp about how AI, machine learning, and cognitive technologies are forever changing the way that entertainment is being brought to the masses. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #62: AI in the Entertainment Indus...
Nov 07, 2018•28 min
Did you know that many of the articles and news reports you are reading are generated by AI systems? Using natural language generation (NLG) and other techniques these AI systems are not only creating content, but they are helping to manage the editorial process, moderate comments, help with research, and support the entire journalistic process. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #61: AI in News & Journalism — Use Case Series at Cognilytica....
Oct 31, 2018•18 min
Social media is filled with lots and lots of content and most of it is unstructured data, meaning that it doesn’t fit into databases or rows and columns on a spreadsheet. In particular, lots of text, images, video and audio content is posted daily. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nav Kesher, Head of Data Sciences, Facebook Marketplace Experience on his insights and experience on AI and its various applications in different industries. Continue ...
Oct 24, 2018•23 min
Public defenders in the United States are burdened with large workloads and ever-increasing piles of information they need to sort through. Additionally, they are deeply needed in an environment where defendants are unable to afford the legal protection they are entitled to under the rights of the constitution. This is one problem that AI and machine learning is promising to solve. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #59: The Tubman Project – Interview with Darrell Malone Jr. at Cognilytica....
Oct 17, 2018•19 min
Anyone observing the news can see that artificial intelligence and machine learning are getting lots of attention. As long as a startup has AI or cognitive technologies in their business plans or marketing material, they seem to get funding. And the amount of funding some of these startups are getting is eye-opening! So this makes us ask the question: Are we in a bubble? Continue reading AI Today Podcast #057: Is VC Funding for AI Overheated? at Cognilytica....
Oct 03, 2018•20 min
When people hear about the race for AI dominance, they often think that the main competition is between the US and China. The US and China do have most of the largest and most well funded AI companies on the planet, and the pace of funding, company growth, and adoption doesn’t seem to be slowing anytime soon. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #056: AI’s Strategic Importance: A Look at Different Countries at Cognilytica....
Sep 26, 2018•24 min•Season 2Ep. 56
The big idea of AI and cognitive technologies is to address and tackle problems that require human cognitive capabilities. Many vendors in the RPA market are simply using AI as a marketing vehicle and are not fundamentally changing or improving the way business process is done. This is why companies looking to pursue the path of Intelligent Process Automation need to have the desired end state in mind: full autonomous business process (ABP). Continue reading AI Today Podcast #055: Autonomous Bus...
Sep 19, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 55
The AI Today podcast is celebrating our 1 year anniversary! With this, we wanted to revisit our first podcast topic “Does AI Matter?” as well as reflect on a year of great podcasts, awesome guests, and some thought provoking content. In our inaugural podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss our reasons for Why AI Matters and we thought it was a great idea to go back and visit this topic again one year later. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #054: Anniversary Podcast: Does AI Still...
Sep 12, 2018•24 min•Season 2Ep. 54
In recent years we have seen amazing advances in the field of conversational AI. Machine learning, and in particular deep learning, has been getting a lot of attention lately. But this is not always the best method when building conversational AI. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts interview Martin Reddy, Co-Founder and CTO at PullString. We discuss 3 fallacies related to conversational AI, why machine learning isn’t always the best approach to solving conversations problems, and how PullStrin...
Sep 05, 2018•20 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Arizona State University (ASU) is trying something very interesting: in addition to giving their incoming students the usual handbooks and orientation materials, they’re also giving some of them an Amazon Alexa device preloaded with ASU-specific skills. The results of this test are quite remarkable and might suggest that voice assistants could be the future of providing knowledge and interaction to users. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #052: AI on the Campus — Interview with John Rome, Arizon...
Aug 29, 2018•18 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making inroads into a wide range of industries, and there’s no exception even within the world of kid’s play. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview James Poulter, Head of Emerging Platforms and Partnerships at Lego. He explains how Lego is adopting AI in a wide range of ways including with its Alexa voice assistant skills and additional insights into adding elements of AI to the various Lego platforms, including Mindst...
Aug 22, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 51
AI and cognitive technologies are enhancing many different industries and providing significant ROI for early adopters. However, AI is also providing benefit in improving our various experiences in life. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Tom Edwards, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer at Epsilon Agency, who shares insights into how AI is impacting marketing, customer experience, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #050: Enhancing Experien...
Aug 15, 2018•17 min•Season 1Ep. 50
On July 31, 2018 Cognilytica released the latest iteration of the Cognilytica Voice Assistant Benchmark. Conversational interface-based devices are quickly taking off with devices and technology such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and an increasing number of new entrants into the space. Cognilytica calls these devices “voice assistants”, rather than the less-useful term “smart speakers”. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #049: Surprising Results from the Cognilytica...
Aug 08, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 49
With the rise in popularity of AI has come the inevitable wave of those looking to take advantage of its popularity. Startups are beginning to realize that simply saying they have “AI” capabilities leads to increased valuations, greater attention, and more possibilities. But people are starting to get wise and it’s already starting to catch up with these firms. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #48: Pseudo AI – Faking it Till You Make it in AI at Cognilytica....
Aug 01, 2018•20 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Artificial Intelligence is allowing companies to improve customer service in ways not possible before. Chatbots allow companies to have an always-on agent that can be integrated into customer support service teams to answer questions or help provide more relevant products and services based on customer preferences. AI enabled systems can help handle complicated, multi-step transactions that are often error-prone such as loan application or student applications or real estate. Continue reading AI...
Jul 25, 2018•15 min•Season 1Ep. 47
If you’re ever worked in an office you know that there is much to be improved with back office processes. It’s often discussed how AI can help the front office, but it’s doing just as much to improve back office operations as well. AI can be a smart, augmented assistant that can help enhance data, provide research, and collect valuable information. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #46: AI in the Back Office — AI Use Case Series at Cognilytica....
Jul 18, 2018•18 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Many governments worldwide are looking at using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other cognitive technologies as part of making their operations more efficient, better serving their citizens, and increasing the range of ways they can meet their missions. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Jose Arrieta, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions at the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) who is working to bring AI a...
Jul 11, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 45
AI is seeing increasing adoption across a wide range of industries, and banking is no exception. Founded in 1922, USAA is a Texas-based Fortune 500 diversified financial services company offering banking, investing, and insurance to people and families who serve, or served, in the United States military, with over 12.4 million members. As a result of their broadly geographically distributed customer base and needs for in-person as well as online and mobile offerings, the company has invested dee...
Jul 04, 2018•16 min•Season 1Ep. 44
