A little over a year ago the OECD released their AI principles and most recently, in February 2020 the OECD launched the AI Policy Observatory. In the podcast we interview Karine Perset from OECD. She shares why creating international principles around AI is important, why the OECD launched the ONE AI Network of Experts, and where she sees the future of AI headed. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #134: International Efforts around Use of AI – Interview with Karine Perset, OECD at Cognilytica....
Mar 25, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 134
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. Machine Learning Model Operationalization Management, referred to as “MLOps”, is focused on the lifecycle of model development and usage, machine learning model operationalization, and deployment. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #133: Challenges of Managing ML Models: I...
Mar 18, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 133
AI is impacting just about every industry and no one has seen that more than publications who cover AI. Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nick Thompson, Editor in Chief at Wired. He discusses how the Wired audience has evolved over the past few years with regards to their understanding of AI, where he sees the industry right now with regards to ethical AI, how worldwide adoption of AI can vary across regions and countries especially with regards to China and the ...
Mar 11, 2020•24 min•Season 3Ep. 132
The pace of worldwide adoption continues to accelerate. Not only are companies and researchers competing with each other for advantage in the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning, so too are entire countries. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer go over research on how different countries are approaching AI and their different legal and regulatory postures. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #131: AI Around the World: Strategies, Laws, and Reg...
Mar 05, 2020•24 min
While the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market is heating up, there are many that say that RPA is not AI per se, but rather a gateway on the path to cognitive automation. Automation Anywhere certainly agrees with this perspective, and in this interview, Manish Rai, VP of Product Marketing at Automation Anywhere shares insights into the RPA industry, the overlap with AI efforts, the new release around autonomous process discovery bots, and the future of cognitive automation. Continue reading A...
Feb 26, 2020•23 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Colin Angle, Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot. He shares with us his thoughts on why autonomy is not intelligence, some exciting use cases and examples of robots he’s seen, and how customers have started to become more comfortable with robots inside their homes over the past 30 years. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #129: Interview with Colin Angle, Robotics Luminary, Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot at Cognilytica....
Feb 19, 2020•14 min
AI Global Forecast Continue reading AI Today Podcast #128: Global AI Adoption Trends at Cognilytica....
Feb 12, 2020•16 min
The legal profession is largely the domain of humans. However, despite the very human nature of the legal profession, artificial intelligence is increasingly making waves in the industry, enhancing legal processes and activities in ways that are not possible with humans alone. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss ways that AI is impacting the legal profession. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #127: AI in Legal at Cognilytica....
Feb 05, 2020•17 min
One of the most remarkable trends in artificial intelligence is the movement to autonomous retailing, which is the use of unmanned and cashier-less retail operations. In this AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss key players in the autonomous retail market, how these stores are changing the retail experience, and how this trend will impact jobs. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #126: Autonomous Retail at Cognilytica....
Jan 29, 2020•17 min
Government agencies are increasingly looking to use AI powered chatbots to help users and citizens more quickly get to the information they seek and increase the overall user experience. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Courtney A. Winship, Chief of the Digital Services Division in the Office of Citizenship and Applicant Information Services at U.S. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #125: Emma – Immigration Chatbot: Interview with Courtney Winship, US Citizenship and Immigrat...
Jan 22, 2020•15 min
Increasingly, we’ve seen some moves to combine different aspects of machine learning approaches together. What if we could find a way to train supervised learning approaches using less data? In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer will explore Semi-Supervised and One-Shot learning. We’ll define what it is, why it can be helpful, and possible use cases. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #124: Semi-Supervised and One-Shot learning at Cognilytica....
Jan 15, 2020•20 min
AI is playing an increasing role in helping researchers and conservationists identify and address the impacts of climate change on our planet. However, it’s also very compute and resource intensive contributing to carbon emissions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we discuss the good, bad, and ugly of AI and it’s impact on the environment. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #123: AI and the Environment at Cognilytica....
Jan 08, 2020•17 min
Facial recognition technology is still an area in AI that brings about mixed emotions. While there can be positive use cases for the technology such as enhanced convenience like checking into flights with just your face or helping law enforcement find missing persons or criminals, there are also many potential misuses for the technology as well including bias in systems misidentifying people and criminals using the technology for malicious reasons. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #122: The Goo...
Jan 01, 2020•16 min
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 predictions for where AI will make waves in 2020 including the growth of model-as-a-service, Machine learning ops (MLOps) systems, the continued focus on responsible and ethical AI as well as increased awareness around data usage. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #121: 2020 AI Predictions at Cognilytica....
Dec 25, 2019•24 min
With 2019 quickly fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to reflect on the year that was including some of the year’s biggest AI news headlines, AI 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. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #120: A Look Back at 2019 AI News Makers at Cognilytica....
Dec 18, 2019•22 min
AI in impacting just about every industry and e-commerce, retail, and supply chain management is no exception. In this AI Today podcast we interview Professor Dr. Michael Feindt, Strategic Advisor at JDA and Founder of Blue Yonder. He shares his insights into use cases for AI in retail/eCommerce space and beyond, how companies that are new on their AI journey can begin to adopt AI, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #119: Interview with Michael Feindt, JDA at Cognilytica....
Dec 11, 2019•27 min
Federal agencies are looking for potential AI use cases that can be implemented today and deliver real value. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Alex Measure, Economist at Bureau of Labor Statistics. He shares with us how he incorporated AI into BLS as well as some of the unique challenges that the federal government has around data usage that could be obstacles for agencies looking to use AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #118: Interview with Alex Measure, BLS at Cognilyti...
Dec 04, 2019•20 min
Machine learning models can be operationalized anywhere and we’re getting to a point now where it’s actually possible to do a lot with Javascript in your browser. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Gant Laborde, Chief Innovation Officer at Infinite Red. He discusses how he has seen this transformation evolve over the past year, which industries are seeing the most AI adoption, and how companies can get started with AI projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #117: AI in Java...
Nov 27, 2019•19 min
AI in Federal Procurement Podcast Continue reading AI Today Podcast #116: AI and Procurement in the Federal Government: Keith Nakasone, GSA at Cognilytica....
Nov 20, 2019•21 min
The public sector, both civilian and defense agencies, have a lot to gain from AI, from predictive analytics to autonomous systems such as unmanned drones, and even logistics management. In this podcast we interview Brigham Bechtel, Chief Strategy Officer, Intelligence and Defense at MarkLogic to discuss how government, and in particular the Navy, is using AI to help with mission success. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #115: AI, Navy, and the OODA Loop: Interview with Mark Logic at Cognilytic...
Nov 13, 2019•32 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Predictive Analytics / Decision Support pattern of AI. This pattern uses machine learning and other cognitive approaches to understand how learned patterns can help predict future outcomes or help humans make decisions about future outcomes using insight learned from behavior, interactions, and data. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #114: Patterns of AI – Predictive Analytics / Decision Support at...
Nov 06, 2019•20 min
One area that’s heating up is the idea of responsible AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Adam Murray from the U.S. Department of State in the Office of International Communications and Information Policy. He shares how the United States seeks to advance internationally our domestic approach to technology policy, particularly when it comes to responsible AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #113: International AI Standards: Interview with Adam Murray, US Dept. of State at C...
Oct 30, 2019•19 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Autonomous Systems pattern of AI. Autonomous systems are defined as systems that are able to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or interact with its surroundings with minimal to no human involvement. This is applied both to physical, hardware autonomous systems as well as software or virtual autonomous systems (software “bots”). Continue reading AI Today Podcast #112: Patterns of AI – Autonomous Sy...
Oct 23, 2019•26 min
In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Bob Gourley, CTO of OODA LLC, publisher of CTOVision and OODAloop.com. We discuss the opportunities and risks of AI as well as talk about the relationship between AI and cybersecurity and ways to deal with the security and reliability of AI. We recorded this podcast live at the AI World Government event in Washington, DC June 24-26, 2019. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #111: Secure & Reliable AI, Interview wit...
Oct 16, 2019•17 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Patterns & Anomalies pattern of AI. The primary objective of this pattern is to find which one of the things is like the other and which is not. Example use cases include fraud detection and risk analysis, discovering patterns among data and surfacing insights, automatic error detection or correction, intelligent monitoring, finding hidden groups of data, finding best matches to given data, predict...
Oct 09, 2019•22 min
In this episode of the AI Today we interview Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He discusses how AI is being implemented at JPL, and then more specifically about what NASA is doing and how AI is being applied in space, both on other planets and here at home. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #109: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Interview with Tom Soderstrom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Cognilytica....
Oct 02, 2019•16 min
Content Intelligence solutions are now enabling enterprises to make unstructured content more valuable and equip digital workforces with the necessary skills and understanding to make intelligent business decisions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY to discuss how content intelligence is helping organizations derive meaning and intent of documents, and add decision-making intelligence, use cases of how companies are successfully applying lev...
Sep 25, 2019•23 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss results from Cognilytica’s Voice Assistant Benchmark 2.0. In this benchmark, Cognilytica evaluates the intelligence and knowledge graph capabilities of four voice assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant (Home), Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. We want to know — just how intelligent is the AI back-end? Continue reading AI Today Podcast #107: Benchmarking the Voice Assistants 2.0 at Cognilytica....
Sep 18, 2019•37 min
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Keith Nelson who is Global Head, Public Sector at Automation Anywhere. He discusses the role RPA plays in moving public sector agencies up the ladder of intelligent automation, some interesting use cases he has seen, do’s and don’ts for agencies looking to get started with RPA and intelligent automation and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #106: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: In...
Sep 11, 2019•16 min
Many countries have taken a strategic approach to AI. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Lindsey Sheppard, Associate Fellow with the International Security Program at Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on the competitive, global race for AI dominance. She shares insights into how various countries seek to leverage AI, how countries are approaching concepts of AI ethics, responsibility, and governance, and more. Continue reading AI...
Sep 04, 2019•19 min
