AI Today Podcast

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:...

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: Artificia...

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 –...

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 Cogn...

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, Mod...

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 –...

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...

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 – Pro...

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 le...

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...

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 o...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 Pr...

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 Certificatio...

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 Bu...

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 h...

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....

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 short...

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...

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 Schme...

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 P...

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...