In order to understand the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which is also sometimes reffered to as Strong AI, it’s important to understand the difference between strong AI versus narrow or weak AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share the definitions for AGI/Strong AI and Narrow/Weak AI and explain why the terms Strong AI and Weak AI have fallen out of favor in recent years. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Artif...
Nov 11, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 283
Companies of all sizes in just about every single industry are looking to see how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can provide a competitive edge, provide efficiencies, and improve ROI in today’s competitive landscape. As a result, this creates tremendous opportunity for people looking to manage these types of projects and there is a significant and growing demand for skilled AI project managers across the whole range of AI capabilities. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: B...
Nov 09, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Season 6Ep. 282
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined in 1956. Despite the fact that the term is now decades old, there still is no commonly accepted definition. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share Cognilytica’s definition for AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Artificial Intelligence at Cognilytica....
Nov 04, 2022•9 min•Season 6Ep. 281
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 Greg Mester who is host of the 5am Mester Scrum podcast. As his podcast talks about Scrum and Agile, he shares with us common misunderstandings about Agile and Scrum, how he sees AI helping Application or Agile Teams, and how the role of project managers is evolving. Continue rea...
Nov 02, 2022•53 min•Season 6Ep. 280
It’s one thing for us to talk about the Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) Methodology and the benefits it can bring to managers running AI and advanced data projects, but hearing directly how individuals are applying the CPMAI Methodology can be incredibly valuable. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Andrew Stone who is Lead Specialist – Product Owner, Data Science at Maximus and he is also CPMAI certified. Continue reading AI Today...
Oct 26, 2022•47 min•Season 6Ep. 279
When putting together your Ethical and Responsible AI Framework it’s important to remember that it needs to be actually implemented. Why spend all this time and resources to put together a framework just to let it sit on a shelf untouched. Remember: Ethical & Responsible AI is something you do, not a statement! In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer talk more about this topic and why it’s so important to actually do AI right which means doing ethical and r...
Oct 19, 2022•21 min•Season 6Ep. 278
When working on your ethical and responsible AI framework you should not overlook the roles, boards, and committees that will need to be put in place to ensure that the framework is actually implemented and updated as needed for overall AI project success for the long term. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer provide a high level overview on how to set up your organization for ethical and responsible AI success. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethica...
Oct 12, 2022•39 min•Season 6Ep. 277
The pace of adoption for artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive technologies continues unabated with widespread, worldwide, rapid adoption of AI and its various patterns. However with any transformative technology laws and regulations may be slow to catch up with the quickly changing technology. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss the global and regional impacts laws and regulations have related to data and AI. Continue reading AI Today Podc...
Oct 05, 2022•23 min•Season 6Ep. 276
Not all algorithms are explainable. So does that mean that it’s ok to not provide any explanation on how your AI system got to the decision it did if you’re using one of those “black box” algorithms? The answer should obviously be no. So, what do you do then when creating Ethical and Responsible AI systems to address this issue around explainable and interpretable AI? Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Explainable and Interpretable AI at Cognilytica....
Sep 28, 2022•32 min•Season 6Ep. 275
In order to have people use AI systems they need to feel that they can trust these systems. That includes putting measures in place around AI Auditability, Traceability, and System Control. But what exactly does that mean and how do you do this in the context of your Ethical and Responsible AI Framework? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues related to AI Auditability, Traceability, and System Control, why it’s important to be transparent w...
Sep 21, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 274
When building Ethical and Responsible AI systems it’s important to think about AI System Transparency. These are ethical principles that focus on giving human users as much visibility into overall system behavior, including issues of visibility into data and AI configuration, appropriate disclosure and user consent, means for gaining visibility into bias and potential mitigation of that bias, and use of open systems. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI System T...
Sep 14, 2022•33 min•Season 6Ep. 273
In order to have people use AI systems they need to feel that they can trust these systems. That includes when they system provides an answer they may not want to hear. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues related to AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Disclosure & Consent including why it’s important to disclose to users they are interacting with an AI, why it’s important to be transparent with users, and what steps you sho...
Sep 07, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 272
If data is the heart of AI, then it should come as no surprise that data privacy plays a big role in building ethical and responsible AI systems. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues related to AI and data privacy, why it’s important to stay up to date on these topics, how they can impact your project, and additional factors that need to be taken into consideration when building trustworthy AI systems. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Et...
Aug 31, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 271
AI systems have the potential to provide great value, but also the potential to cause great harm. Knowing how to build or use AI systems is simply not going to be enough. You need to know how to build, use, and interact with these systems ethically and responsibly. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues that related to AI safety and security and why building trustworthy AI is critical for the success of the project. Continue reading AI Today...
Aug 24, 2022•19 min•Season 5Ep. 270
Construction companies are increasingly using AI in a range of ways to tackle a number of challenges. 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. One such company, ALICE Technologies, is focused on a different challenge: scheduling. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview with René Morkos, CEO of ALICE Technologies and Adjunct Professor at St...
Aug 17, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 269
Organizations are increasingly making use of AI systems to power their operations and enable a wide range of applications from the trivial to the mission-critical. As a result it’s more important than ever to understand the many complex issues related to AI and Data fairness and bias. In this Ethical and Responsible AI Series hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer dig deeper into the role data plays in AI, and how building AI systems with fairness in mind is critical. Continue reading AI Today P...
Aug 10, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 268
Organizations are increasingly making use of AI systems to power their operations and enable a wide range of applications from the trivial to the mission-critical. Many of the concepts of AI ethics generally revolve around the set of what is “right” vs “wrong” with regards to intelligent systems. However, the sort of ethical concepts that are discussed in AI ethics frameworks tend to cluster around five different areas including: Societal Ethical AI, Responsible AI, Trustworthy AI, AI Governance...
Aug 03, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 267
AI systems have the potential to provide great value, but also the potential to cause great harm. Knowing how to build or use AI systems is simply not going to be enough. You need to know how to build, use, and interact with these systems ethically and responsibly. As more organizations adopt AI technologies the need to do AI ethically and responsibly is becoming incredibly important. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Why is Ethical & Responsible AI Necessary? a...
Jul 27, 2022•25 min•Season 5Ep. 266
Companies of all sizes in just about every single industry are looking to see how Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cognitive technology projects can provide a competitive edge, provide efficiencies, and improve ROI in today’s competitive landscape. As a result, this creates tremendous opportunity for people looking to manage these types of projects and there is a significant and growing demand for skilled AI project managers across the whole range of AI capabilities. Cont...
Jul 20, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 265
It’s one thing for us to talk about the Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) Methodology and the benefits it can bring to managers running AI and advanced data projects, but hearing directly how individuals are applying the CPMAI Methodology can be incredibly valuable. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Karen McCann who is a Product Manager at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and is also CPMAI certified. Continue reading AI Today Podc...
Jul 13, 2022•24 min•Season 5Ep. 264
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer revisit the discussion around common reasons why AI projects fail. Sometimes AI systems can be too creepy and go into the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is a relationship between the degree of an object’s resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failures Series: Falling into the Uncanny Valley at Cognilytica....
Jul 06, 2022•29 min•Season 5Ep. 263
It’s one thing for us to talk about the Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) Methodology and the benefits it can bring to managers running AI and advanced data projects, but hearing directly how companies are applying the CPMAI Methodology can be incredibly valuable. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Charles Mendoza, who is Sr. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Lessons learned from AI Project Management – Interview with Charles Mendo...
Jun 29, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 262
If you have ever tried to apply Agile methodologies to your AI projects you’ve probably noticed that Agile is challenged by the requirements of AI systems. We need to evolve Agile Methodologies from a Data-First Perspective. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer revisit the Agile Manifesto and Agile Methodologies and share why AI and data-centric methodologies, and specifically CPMAI Methodology, are needed for running AI projects successfully. Continue r...
Jun 22, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 261
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what AI in the cloud really means. They break down what is the cloud with a technical definition and then an economic definition to level set the topic and then dig into the question: What does AI have to do with the Cloud? Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in the Cloud at Cognilytica....
Jun 15, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 260
Our AI Failures Series podcast was so popular we wanted to revisit some of the main reasons why we see AI projects fail. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer revisit the discussion around common reasons why AI projects fail. Not every vendor solution solves your problem, regardless of what they may tell you. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Revisiting AI Failures – Vendor Driven Causes of Failure at Cognilytica....
Jun 08, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 259
Back in 2012 an article was published in HBR stating that Data Scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st Century. However, about a decade later, does this still hold true? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss how Data Project Manager is becoming the new sexy job title of the next decade, why certifications for PMs matter, and how certifications like CPMAI are quickly gaining traction in the PM community. Continue reading Is Data Scientist still t...
Jun 01, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 258
Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI projects without taking the right steps to ensure their success. Agile and iterative approaches have become adopted best practices for application development projects, but why don’t we have something similar when it comes to advanced analytics, big data, and AI projects? Without using best-practices approaches that standardize steps for data preparation, data identification, and data protection, it’s hard to ac...
May 25, 2022•54 min•Season 5Ep. 257
Like all technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not immune to the waves of obscurity, hyped promotion, plateauing of interest, and decline. In fact, the AI industry has been through two such major waves of interest, hype, plateau, and decline, commonly referred to as the “AI Winters”. Is the next AI Winter approaching? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss the 3 main reasons for a winter: decline in investment, interest, and research. Conti...
May 19, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 256
Level 3 Intelligent Automation allows you to address the greatest challenges of unpredictability and variability and be able to achieve autonomous process discovery, autonomous process analytics, and autonomous process optimization. But is Level 3 Intelligent Automation right for your team or process? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what Level 3 Intelligent Automation is, what questions you need to ask to identify opportunities for Level 3 a...
May 11, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 255
Level 2 Intelligent Automation allows you to address greater challenges of unpredictability and variability. But how do you know if Level 2 Intelligent Automation is even right for your team? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what Level 2 Intelligent Automation is, how to go beyond NLP & computer vision to use cognitive technology to help spot patterns & anomalies, as well as some of the challenges Level 2 Intelligent Automation presents. Cont...
May 04, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 254
