In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Conversation / Human Interaction pattern. The objective of this pattern is machines interacting with humans the way humans interact with each other. We spend time in this podcast going over various use cases and how industry is using this pattern for things such as Chatbots, Voice assistants, Content generation, Sentiment / mood / intent analysis, and Machine Translation. Continue reading AI Today ...
Aug 28, 2019•23 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Naveen Rao, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel. He shares with us how various training tools have evolved over the past few years to help teams more quickly train and deploy AI models and how companies need to maintain and manage models as they move from the training phase to the inference phase. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #103: Insights int...
Aug 21, 2019•19 min
Robots continue to be used in a variety of ways for useful and creative purposes. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Adam Cantor and Erika Angle from Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE). They share how underwater robots are helping control the invasive lion fish population, some of the technical challenges they encountered developing an underwater robot, and how they were able to transfer technology and knowledge from industry (particularly iRobot) to help m...
Aug 14, 2019•23 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jonathan Patrizio, Head of Technical Advisory and Alexa Evangelist at Mobiquity and Randy Sanborn, Principal Solutions Architect at Mobiquity. Both guests share how the market for voice assistants has evolved over the past five years, how organizations should approach conversational applications, and more. This podcast was recorded live in person at the Amazon re:Mars event. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #101: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Inte...
Aug 07, 2019•26 min
We have a special episode for you — #100! We’ve just entered the triple digits on episode numbers, so it’s worth celebrating. In this episode, we cover a number of hot topic issues around the question of whether or not AI is overhyped. We look at what’s happening with end-users in the enterprise and public sector, vendors, the $1B Microsoft investment in OpenAI, and what’s happening in the general ecosystem. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #100: Episode 100! Is AI Overhyped? at Cognilytica....
Jul 31, 2019•25 min
In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Arti Garg, Emerging Market and Technology Director at Cray to gain insights into how AI is being used and implemented in government and industry. She also shares insights into how companies should approach AI and how to select the best technology vendor from the 3,000+ vendors in the landscape to fit your needs and desired outcomes. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #99: AI Adoption in the Government and Beyond –...
Jul 24, 2019•15 min
For many years Amazon has been leading the way with using AI and machine learning in many parts of their business. In this podcast we interview three Vice Presidents to showcase various ways Amazon uses AI. Our guests include Roger Barga, General Manager, AWS Robotics, Srikanth Thirumalai, Vice President, Search, and Chuck Moore, Vice President, Alexa Shopping. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #098: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Amazon Executive Interviews Provide Insights into Amazon’s Use of AI at...
Jul 17, 2019•43 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dr. Philip Alvelda, CEO of Brainworks. He shares his thoughts on government’s role with regard to responsible and ethical AI, how new laws such as GDPR impact AI, whose role it is (companies or governments) to regulate AI, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #97: Insights into AI Privacy, Ethics, and Regulations: Interview with Dr. Alvelda, CEO Brainworks at Cognilytica....
Jul 10, 2019•27 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dale Brown, VP, Business Development & Operations at Figure Eight live in person at the Amazon re:Mars event. For those of our listeners that were not able to attend this event was June 3-7, 2019. Dale shares with us what organizations need to consider when trying to get a machine learning project off the ground and why high quality data matters for AI projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #096: Live a...
Jul 03, 2019•17 min
Construction companies are increasingly using AI in a range of ways. From optimizing work schedules to improving workplace safety to keeping a secure watch on construction facilities, AI in the construction industry is already producing value. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer explore various ways AI is being used in the construction industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #95: AI Use Case Series — AI in Construction at Cognilytica....
Jun 26, 2019•15 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Goal Driven systems pattern. The objective of this pattern is to find the optimal solution to a problem through trial and error. We spend time in this podcast going over various use cases and how industry is using this pattern for things such as roboadvising, Resource optimization, bidding and real-time auctions, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #94: Understanding the Goal-Driven Systems...
Jun 19, 2019•15 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Mona Siddiqui, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Mona shares some insights into the use of AI and machine learning at HHS as well as how she sees AI playing a role with respect to healthcare, medicine, and improving people’s lives. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #93: AI Ethics & Government: Interview with Mona Siddiqui US Department of Health & Human Services at Cognilytica....
Jun 12, 2019•17 min
Enterprises are increasingly incorporating AI into their project management processes to make projects more strategic and to make better use of the data created by these processes. From AI chatbots, to intelligent bots that help automate project management duties such as project documentation and quality check activities, or AI-enhanced data visualization then helps identify bottlenecks and areas where process improvements or other changes can be applied to improve overall performance AI is bein...
Jun 05, 2019•16 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Anthony Scriffignano , Senior Vice President & Chief Data Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet. We discuss The State of governance, big data, and ethics, and give a sneak preview of his talk at the upcoming AI World Gov event. He also shares his thoughts on the limitations of machine learning, and his insights on how organizations of all sizes can deepen their machine learning expertise and build data science skills. Continue reading AI Today Podcast...
May 29, 2019•23 min
Machine learning is great at identifying and understanding the real world and unstructured data. ML can identify and understand images, sound, items, handwriting, faces, and gestures. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss various use cases in the recognition pattern on AI. Show Notes: Recognition & Computer Vision Workshop & Certification CPMAI TRAINING & CERTIFICATION Continue reading AI Today Podcast #90: Understanding The Recognition Pattern of AI at Cognilytica....
May 22, 2019•19 min
Law enforcement is increasing seeing benefits from AI technologies including scanning video footage for anomalies, augmenting capabilities around surveillance and crowd control, transcribing audio, facial recognition technologies, and helping detect counterfeit items. Through AI, law enforcement agencies are enabled to do more than they ever could before to keep the peace, catch and identify and prevent threats before they occur, and speed up the time it takes to catch criminals and solve crimes...
May 15, 2019•20 min
In this podcast we interview Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Former Chair of the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Select Committee and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. We discuss ethical considerations governments need to address, possible laws and regulations that will need to be put into place around cognitive technologies, and how AI affects the labor market. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #88: AI in the UK and Beyond – Interview with Lord Tim Clement...
May 08, 2019•21 min
Learning is not a one size fits all approach — what works for one person, may not work for a peer. This is why vendors and those in the industry have seen such huge potential for AI technologies to assist with learning and education. It’s already transforming the way students learn, providing assistance to teachers and smoothing application and admissions processes. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #87: AI Use Case Series — AI in Education at Cognilytica....
May 01, 2019•19 min
Garbage in is garbage out. Nothing is more true in the world of AI. The market for data labeling is growing and becoming very important as more and more companies need clean, accurate, well-labeled data for ML training. In this podcast we share key stats and insights from Cognilytica’s recent Data Engineering, Preparation, and Labeling for AI 2019 report including AI’s secret, the market for data prep solutions, and why garbage data in produces garbage out. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #86:...
Apr 24, 2019•24 min
Cognilytica has spent a considerable amount of time on AI use cases and how different industries are using various AI and cognitive technologies and we’ve found that there are seven common patterns that seem to continuously show up in all these use cases. Some use cases use a single pattern for their application while others combine a few together. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #85: The Seven Patterns of AI at Cognilytica....
Apr 17, 2019•23 min
The agriculture industry is turning to AI technologies to improve a wide range of agriculture-related tasks in the entire food supply chain including help yield healthier crops, control pests, monitor soil and growing conditions, help reduce the workloads, and organize data for farmers. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer discuss how AI is being used in the agriculture industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #84: AI in Agriculture — Use Case Series at Co...
Apr 10, 2019•15 min
In this podcast we interview Madelene Stolpe who is the Head of Digital Strategy, Health for the City of Oslo, Norway. We discuss how Oslo is exploring using AI technologies to help its citizens and also help move towards becoming a Smart Connected City, the role that AI plays with labor and employment and the future of jobs, and more! Continue reading AI Today Podcast #83: Interview with Madelene Stolpe, Head of Digital Strategy, Health, City of Oslo, Norway at Cognilytica....
Apr 03, 2019•21 min
In this podcast we get the rare opportunity to interview fellow podcasters. Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard are co-hosts of the Data Driven podcast and joined us on this episode of the AI Today podcast to discuss the important role data plays in AI, their take on how data will continue to be used into the future and the idea of pervasive knowledge. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #82: Interview Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard with Data Driven Podcast at Cognilytica....
Mar 27, 2019•32 min
Sales are important for any organization. After all, if companies aren’t selling they are not generating revenue. Increasingly, enterprises are using AI in sales to improve their bottom lines. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer explain how AI, machine learning, and cognitive technologies are being applied to enhance the way sales is being done in the enterprise. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #81: How AI Enhances Sales — Use Case Series at Cognilytica....
Mar 20, 2019•15 min
Most of the resources we need to power our growing economies — oil, gold, copper, coal, and more– come from the ground underneath us. Modern mining operations are increasingly turning AI and machine learning technologies to help keep those resources flowing without risking human lives. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts explore various ways that AI technologies are being used in the mining industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #80: AI in Mining — Use Case Series at Cognilytica....
Mar 13, 2019•15 min
A lot goes into the clothes we wear, covering a spectrum of activities including designing, manufacturing, logistics, marketing and sales. It’s no wonder that fashion and clothing manufacturing firms are applying AI technologies to transform various steps throughout the process. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer will discuss various ways AI is being used in the fashion industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #79: AI in Fashion — Use Case Series at Cognily...
Mar 06, 2019•16 min
The fight for customer attention is fierce and companies are increasingly turning to technology to discover new ways to help. Artificial intelligence is playing a major role in creating connected customer experiences throughout the entire customer lifecycle. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer explore various ways AI is improving the customer experience. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #78: AI in Customer Experience at Cognilytica....
Feb 27, 2019•20 min
Across many industries and implementations, we see some recurring themes pop up in those use cases. In past podcasts we’ve talked about chatbots, autonomous vehicles, and aspects of natural language understanding, computer vision, and advanced robotics. In today’s AI podcast we want to talk about the concept of hypersonalization, a particular use case that’s applicable across a wide range of industries, but advertising in particular. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #77: Hyperpersonalization – ...
Feb 20, 2019•25 min
Cognilytica tracks almost 3000 companies that offer AI-specific or AI-enhanced products for sale in the market. However, as you can imagine, there’s a great amount of diversity in these vendors. Some vendors focus on providing low-level “enabling” infrastructure that supports any range of AI, machine learning, or other compute- or data-intensive activity. Others provide a single-industry application that applies AI to a particular, specific business or industry problem. Continue reading AI Today...
Feb 13, 2019•22 min
In heavily regulated industries such as the energy industry there can be some unique challenges to technology adoption. In this podcast we interview Tim Custer, Senior Vice president – North America land, business development and real estate with Apache. We discuss how AI and ML technologies are being used to extract valuable information from unstructured content, how Apache is leveraging AI technologies to help with a variety of tasks such as contract review, some unique use cases for AI and ML...
Feb 06, 2019•14 min
