Adding intelligence to automation enables greater degrees of variability and unpredictability. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what it means to have Level 1 automation to handle variability and unpredictability, how to incorporate NLP and computer vision to help handle tasks with unstructured data, some of the challenges Level 1 automation can present, and what the key ingredient to Level 1 automation is. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: A...
Apr 27, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 253
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dive deep into Level 0 Automation, why so-called “dumb” automation provides tremendous value to your team when implemented correctly. This episode shares examples for immediate ROI with Level 0 automation, how your team should go about identifying and prioritizing opportunities for Level 0 automation, how to plan and iterate, then implement automation. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Star...
Apr 20, 2022•52 min•Season 5Ep. 252
For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However, what exactly do you automate? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss how to find automation opportunities in business processes, questions your team should ask when figuring out what to automate, and when and when not to start with “low hanging fruit”. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation to Intelligence Roadmap Series: ...
Apr 13, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 251
In our first ever AI Today podcast we asked the question “Does AI Matter?” and we revisited this question in our one year anniversary podcast as well. Now about 5 years from our first ever podcast episode we wanted to ask this question again: Does AI still matter in 2022? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig into this question and share how AI has changed and evolved over the past 5 years. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Does AI Still Matter in 20...
Apr 07, 2022•54 min•Season 5Ep. 250
For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However before even figuring out what to automate you should have a solid understanding of your business processes and tasks. But, what exactly is a business process? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what a business process is, define processes versus tasks, and bring this into the context of automation. Continue reading AI Today Po...
Mar 30, 2022•44 min•Season 5Ep. 249
Data science is transforming business and generating new value across the organization. However, for large organizations they need a centralized group that centers on a discipline’s vision, governance, technique, and framework. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer Venkat Gunnu who is Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Venkat Gunnu, Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast ...
Mar 23, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 248
For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However, figuring out what to automate, why to automate, and what return on investment (ROI) it will provide can be tricky. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss level 0 automation – what is it, why organization should look to automate processes, and what questions to ask in order to get started. Continue reading AI Today Podcast Roadmap...
Mar 16, 2022•50 min•Season 5Ep. 247
Shopify has over 1.7 million merchants across over 175 countries, with hundreds of millions of consumers shopping at their stores. By leveraging the scale of their data they are able to create new experiences for their merchants, and apply Machine Learning at scale. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ella Hilal, who is the Head of Data Science, Engineering, Revenue and Growth at Shopify. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Implementing AI at ...
Mar 09, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 246
As companies are looking to leverage cognitive technology, and deploying machine learning models, organizations need to make sure they have the correct people, processes, and technology in place to succeed. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss with Anil Kumar, Exec. Director AI Industrialization at Verizon what AI industrialization is and how Verizon is moving from pockets of AI/ML to AI/ML being implemented across the organization. Continue read...
Mar 02, 2022•29 min•Season 5Ep. 245
The idea of bringing organizations from automation to intelligence is about the journey, not the destination. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss and overview of the automation to intelligence journey including introducing benefits of automation, discussing why the automation journey matters, and how to go about moving up the ladder of automation to intelligence. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Roadmap Series: Getting Started on the Automatio...
Feb 23, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 244
Heavily regulated industries such as healthcare can pose unique challenges, but also provide unique opportunities with it comes to AI and ML. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Vignesh Shetty who is Senior Vice President & General Manager Edison AI and Platform at GE Healthcare Digital. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI and Healthcare – Interview with Vignesh Shetty SVP & GM Edison AI and Platform at GE Healthcare Digital at Cognilytica....
Feb 16, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 243
At a very fundamental level facial recognition is a way of recognizing a human face through technology. Seems straight forward enough, right? Not so fast. For many industries, facial recognition technology is still a gray area, clouded with mystery and mistrust. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer provide an overview of how facial recognition works, discuss the concerns and issues around facial recognition technology, news about how the technology was ...
Feb 09, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 242
Machine learning algorithms need examples of data from which they can learn, especially supervised machine learning algorithms. However, one big challenge for those looking to put machine learning into practice is the lack of a sufficient quantity of good quality data examples from which to train systems. To address the needs for large quantities of high quality data, vendors have emerged to provide computer-generated data, known as synthetic data, that matches the range and quality of data need...
Feb 02, 2022•47 min•Season 5Ep. 241
This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. Data is at the heart of AI. It should be no surprise then that proper data management is crucial for AI projects. This podcast is an excerpt from our Cognilytica Education course discussing data pipelines. In this clip we discuss the training pipeline the inference pipeline. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Education Series: Data Pipelines at Cognilytica....
Jan 26, 2022•22 min•Season 5Ep. 240
As the markets for Data, Automation, Analytics, and AI continue to evolve, so too does Cognilytica’s coverage of these areas. In today’s podcast we discuss how we are expanding our current Cognilytica Classification of the AI Vendor Ecosystem to include a data infrastructure layer. Within this layer falls data generation, big data storage and query, and data engineering and DataOps. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Expanding Data Infrastructure Layer at Cognilytica....
Jan 19, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 239
In order for many machine learning algorithms to be trained, especially supervised learning algorithms, they need to be fed relevant data along with the desired meaning of the data. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer provide an overview of the data labeling market, what “ground truth” labeling is, the different data labeling and annotation needs, and data labeling and annotation use cases. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: An Overview of the Data Labe...
Jan 12, 2022•48 min•Season 5Ep. 238
On today’s AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer are going to do their annual AI Market Forecast & Trends. They will spend some time reflecting on what they are seeing in the market and where they forecast the AI markets will go in 2022. They will talk about the Data Labeling, Data Engineering & Preparation, ML Platforms, ML Ops, and RPA markets. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The State of AI (and AI Today) heading into 2022 at Cognilytica....
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 15 min
With 2021 quickly fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to do our annual yearly AI recap. On today’s podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer are going to take a look back at 2021 as it relates to AI and share some of the hottest news from the past year, including acquisitions and fund raises, and some of our favorite podcasts of 2021. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Looking back at AI (and AI Today) in 2021 at Cognilytica....
Dec 31, 2021•52 min•Season 5Ep. 236
AI is not new – in fact the term was coined in 1956. Why then, if it’s been around for decades, and we are now on our third major wave of AI interest and hype, do we keep making the same mistakes that have brought us to two previous AI Winters? Are we still overpromising what AI can deliver? Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – Overpromising and Underdelivering at Cognilytica....
Dec 29, 2021•52 min•Season 5Ep. 235
Earlier in 2021, The National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) published their final report that presents the NSCAI’s strategy for winning the artificial intelligence era and provides a strategy to get the United States AI-ready by 2025. On this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer had the opportunity to interview Gilman Louie who is one of 15 commissioners for the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) and co-founder and partner of Alsop Louie Partners, an...
Dec 23, 2021•43 min•Season 5Ep. 235
For anyone following AI, it should come as no surprise that countries around the world are taking a vested interest in AI. In 2021 the NSCAI published their final report explaining the steps the United States must take to responsibly use AI for national security and defense, defend against AI threats, and promote AI innovation. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner for the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) at Cognilytica....
Dec 22, 2021•39 min•Season 5Ep. 234
It’s important for organizations to understand all that’s involved that goes into the model. A common reason that AI projects fail is that the team does not understand the model and data lifecycle. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into this subject and share tips for organizations to overcome this common issue. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – Not Understanding the Model & Data Lifecycle at Cognilytica....
Dec 15, 2021•40 min•Season 5Ep. 232
AI is not the solution to all problems. And, not every vendor solution solves your problem, regardless of what they may tell you. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer continue the discussion around common reasons why AI projects fail. In this episode they dig into issues that can happen when companies don’t ask the right questions and get caught up believing vendor and industry hype. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – Believing Vendor...
Dec 08, 2021•45 min•Season 5Ep. 231
Far too often, organizations move forward with AI projects without having a clear understanding of how their AI and ML models are going to be used in the real world. This lack of real world understanding is a major reasons why AI projects fail. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into this topic, and share ways companies can overcome this issue. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – The Real World Mismatch at Cognilytica....
Dec 03, 2021•20 min•Season 5Ep. 230
Countries across the world are understanding that they can take advantage of the tremendous transformation presented by AI and cognitive technologies and position themselves for global competitiveness in the future. As a result, countries are coming up with their own unique AI strategies. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Albert King, Chief Data Officer of the Scottish Government to discuss the Scottish AI strategy that was published in Marc...
Dec 01, 2021•27 min•Season 5Ep. 229
On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders who are implementing AI and cognitive technology at various companies and agencies. However in this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Felipe Flores, host of Data Futurology Podcast. On his podcast he talks about Data Science through a human lens and discusses the human side of data with leaders from across the globe. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data Science through a Human Lens – Interview with Felipe Fl...
Nov 26, 2021•Season 5Ep. 228
In order for projects to be successful, the time between concept to execution needs to be reasonably set. Far too often, we see the iteration time of AI projects to be months, if not years, from the initial pilot. Additionally, we see organizations run a proof of concept in a controlled lab setting (why?) rather than a pilot using real world systems. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – Iteration Time & Proof of Concept vs. Pilots at Cognilytica....
Nov 24, 2021•24 min•Season 5Ep. 227
This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. Data is at the heart of AI. It should be no surprise then that proper data management is crucial for AI projects. This podcast is an excerpt from our Cognilytica Education course “Managing Data for AI”. In this clip we discuss the history of how we stored data in the past and moving from transactional systems to analytics systems. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Educati...
Nov 17, 2021•24 min•Season 5Ep. 221
The saying garbage in is garbage out couldn’t be more true when it comes to data being fed into AI and ML models. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss the importance of data quality and why bad data is a main reason for AI project failure. Show Notes: CPMAI Methodology CPMAI MethodologyIntro to CPMAI webinar AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – Data Quantity & Data Understanding Issues AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – ROI Misalignment Continue reading AI Today Po...
Nov 10, 2021•30 min•Season 5Ep. 225
Organizations are finding that data is only part of their AI strategy. In order to fully utilize their data, they need to be able to make sense of that data and effectively communicate the story their data is telling. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Mara Pometti, Global AI Strategist at IBM. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: From Data Reporter to AI Strategist, Interview with Mara Pometti, Global AI Strategist at IBM at Cognilytica....
Nov 04, 2021•Season 5Ep. 224
