Determining which categories or “classes” data belongs to in the core aspect of classification. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the terms Classification & Classifier, Binary Classifier, Multiclass Classifier, Decision Boundary, and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Classification & Classifier, Binary Classifier, Multiclass Classifier, Decision Bound...
Feb 22, 2023•12 min•Season 6Ep. 312
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer have a discussion with Bill Raymond who is the host of the Agile In Action podcast. We discuss why project managers should pay attention to AI, how the areas of Agile and AI are intersecting, and how artificial intelligence fits within the project management space both from running AI projects to also how AI will enhance the project manager’s role. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI and Project Management Fit T...
Feb 21, 2023•46 min•Season 6Ep. 311
When it comes to building ML models, you want to make a model simple enough so that it can handle a wide range of real-world data on the one hand, but not too simple that it overgeneralizes or underfits the available data. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the terms Overfitting, Underfitting, Bias, Variance, and Bias/Variance Tradeoff, and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Continue reading AI Today Podcast...
Feb 17, 2023•11 min•Season 6Ep. 311
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the terms Dimension, Curse of Dimensionality, Dimensionality Reduction, and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Glossary Series: Artificial Intelligence AI Glossary Series – Machine Learning, Algorithm, Model Glossary Series: Prediction, Inference, and Generalization Glossary Series: Mac...
Feb 15, 2023•13 min•Season 6Ep. 310
Pattern recognition in general is what machine learning systems do. They use an algorithm to learn patterns from data that can be then used to make predictions on new data. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the term Pattern Recognition and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series- Pattern Recognition at Cognilytica....
Feb 10, 2023•9 min•Season 6Ep. 309
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define terms related to Machine Learning Approaches including Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Glossary Series: Artificial Intelligence AI Glossary Series – Machine Learning, Algorithm, Model Glossary Series: Probabilisti...
Feb 08, 2023•10 min•Season 6Ep. 308
Even though the term Artificial Intelligence does not have an agreed upon definition, the term machine learning does have a definition. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the terms Machine Learning, Algorithm, Model and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Machine Learning, Algorithm, Model at Cognilytica....
Feb 03, 2023•12 min•Season 6Ep. 307
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss and define at a high level DeepMind, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero. Show Notes: FREE Intro To CPMAI Mini Course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Today Podcast #94: Understanding the Goal-Driven Systems Pattern of AI AI Glossary Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary – DeepMind, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero at Cognilytica....
Feb 01, 2023•11 min•Season 6Ep. 306
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Prediction, Inference, and Generalization, why it’s important to understand these terms, and how they fit into the overall picture of AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Glossary Series: Machine Learning, Algorithm, Model Glossary Series: Classification & Classifier, Binary Classifier, Multiclass Classifier, Decision ...
Jan 27, 2023•11 min•Season 6Ep. 305
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Heuristic & Brute-force Search, why it’s important to understand these terms, and how they fit into the overall picture of AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Heuristic & Brute-force Search at Cognilytica....
Jan 25, 2023•12 min•Season 6Ep. 304
One of the seven patterns of AI, the objective of goal driven systems is to find the most optimal path or solution to a problem. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Goal-Driven Systems as well as Roboadvisor, why it’s important to understand these terms, and how they fit into the overall picture of AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Goal-Driven Systems & Roboadvisor at Cognilytica....
Jan 20, 2023•9 min•Season 6Ep. 303
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the terms Probabilistic & Deterministic and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Artificial Intelligence Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Probabilistic & Deterministic at Cognilytica....
Jan 18, 2023•11 min•Season 6Ep. 302
The objective of the hyperpersonalization pattern of AI is to treat each individual as an individual. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Personalization, Recommendation, and Hyperpersonalization, how they are related, and why it’s important to have a light level understanding of these terms, and how machine learning makes hyperpersonalization possible. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: P...
Jan 13, 2023•13 min•Season 6Ep. 301
The objective of the recognition pattern of AI is to have machines identify and understand the real world and unstructured data. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Recognition Systems, Computer Vision, and ImageNet, how they are related, and why it’s important to have a light level understanding of these terms. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Recognition Systems, Computer Vision, Image...
Jan 11, 2023•14 min•Season 6Ep. 300
Named after researcher and AI pioneer Alan Turing, the Turing Test aims to test whether a machine or system is “intelligent” by putting the system to a test. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the Turing Test at a high level and discuss if it’s now possibly an overly simplistic assessment of whether or not machines have achieved necessary levels of intelligence. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Turing Test at Cognilytica....
Jan 06, 2023•11 min•Season 6Ep. 299
Virtual agents and chatbots have been proving useful at organizations. But is their real potential yet to be tapped? In this episode of the AI Today Podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Pat Calhoun who is CEO of Espressive. He shares with us where he thinks virtual agents are headed in 2023 including why he thinks virtual agents will be the next Intranet, what the pervasiveness of chatbots means for organizations, and the impact virtual agents will have on the way we work. Co...
Jan 04, 2023•36 min•Season 6Ep. 298
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define AI Today the term Conversational Systems. We also define the terms Chatbots, Voice Assistants, and Machine Translation and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI Glossary Series – Content Summarization & Analysis,Sentiment Analysis A...
Dec 30, 2022•11 min•Season 6Ep. 297
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define Content Summarization and Analysis and Sentiment Analysis. We explain at a high level what these terms are and how they relate to AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI Glossary Series – Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine Translation AI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Con...
Dec 28, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 296
Cybernetics has actually been around longer than the term AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define what Cybernetic systems are at a high level. Show Notes: FREE Intro To CPMAI Mini Course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Glossary Series: Cybernetics at Cognilytica....
Dec 23, 2022•11 min•Season 6Ep. 295
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer have a discussion with the hosts of PM Point of View Podcast Kendall Lott and Mike Fortezza. We discuss why project managers should pay attention to AI, why data-centric approaches are needed to run AI projects, and how CPMAI can enhance PM’s ability to run data projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI and Project Management Fit Together: Interview with Kendall Lott and Mike Fortezza, PM Point of View Podca...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 294
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Speech-to-Text, Test-to-Speech, and (Automated) Speech Recognition. We share how these terms are related and how they fit into AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Content Summarization & Analysis, Sentiment Analysis AI Glossary ...
Dec 16, 2022•11 min•Season 6Ep. 293
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define Autonomous Systems, as well as related terms including Levels of Autonomy, Autonomous vehicle, and Autonomous (automated) Retail. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Today Podcast #112: Patterns of AI – Autonomous Systems AI Today Podcast #055: Autonomous Business Process (ABP) AI Today Podcast #37: Life with Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles The AI-Enabled Futu...
Dec 14, 2022•14 min•Season 6Ep. 292
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”. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define an “AI Winter” at a high level. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: AI Winters at Cognilytica....
Dec 09, 2022•12 min•Season 6Ep. 291
On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders who are implementing AI and cognitive technology at various companies and agencies. However we are seeing the cross section of AI and project management and felt it was important to bring in PM experts to the discussion. In this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Bob Payne who is host of the Agile Toolkit podcast. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: An Agile Perspective on AI – Interview with Bob Payne, host of t...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 290
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. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define at a high level the seven patterns of AI and explain how they can be used to shortcut AI projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Seven Patterns of AI at Cogn...
Dec 02, 2022•11 min•Season 6Ep. 289
It’s one thing for us to talk about the Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) Methodology and the benefits it can bring to project managers running AI and advanced data projects, but hearing directly how individuals are applying the CPMAI Methodology and how it has directly benefit their projects can be incredibly valuable. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Andre Barcaui who is a Brazilian project manager and professor and he is also C...
Nov 30, 2022•35 min•Season 6Ep. 288
Rather than replacing humans with autonomous agents, businesses and agencies can see significant value in enhancing the capabilities of their existing staff and leveraging AI as a “force multiplier” that enables them to do more with their existing resources. This is the key idea behind the concept of Augmented Intelligence. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss the idea of augmented intelligence and what it means when AI can be used to assist huma...
Nov 25, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 287
On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders and practitioners who are implementing and managing AI and cognitive technology projects at various companies and government agencies. However in this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Galen Low, host of The Digital Project Manager podcast and co-founder of the Digital Project Manager. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Galen Low, host of The Digital Project Manager podcast at Cognilytica....
Nov 23, 2022•52 min•Season 6Ep. 286
Sometimes, talking about what is and isn’t AI isn’t helpful given the lack of a commonly accepted definition of AI. Instead we find that using the term Cognitive technologies when we’re talking about goals of Machines mimicking and approaching Human Intelligence can provide much better results. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the term Cognitive Technology. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Cognitive Technology at Cognilyt...
Nov 18, 2022•9 min•Season 6Ep. 285
On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders and practitioners who are implementing and managing AI and cognitive technology projects at various companies and government agencies. However in this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ann Campea who is the host of The Everyday PM Podcast. Her podcast focuses on project management and we discuss how the project management industry has changed and evolved with technological advancements, how she sees artificial ...
Nov 16, 2022•35 min•Season 6Ep. 284
