AI Today Podcast

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 David Asboth and Shaun McGirr, the hosts from Half Stack Data Science podcast. As their podcast talks about realities of Data Science in the enterprise, they share with us where th...

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 Francesco Gadaleta, host of the Data Science at Home podcast. As his podcast talks about about data and data science trends, Francesco shares with us some of the biggest trends eme...

This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. In our education we go into great detail explaining and breaking down AI, including fundamentals of AI including actually learning the terms and concepts of AI and how it all fits together. This podcast is an excerpt from our Cognilytica Education course “Fundamentals of AI”. C...

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 Andrey Kurenkov and Sharon Zhou from the Let’s Talk AI Podcast. As their podcast covers the latest AI news, we discussed what they are seeing as some of the biggest trends emerging...

Automation has provided tremendous value to organizations and agencies of all sorts. However, if you want to see real value from automation, and in particular Robotic Process Automation (RPA), it’s important to know what these bots can and can’t do, and how AI is being applied to help handle more complex tasks. Hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer walk through different methodologies including t...

This podcast episode is part of our AI Education series and provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. In this podcast we’re sharing a clip from our Best Practices & Methodologies for Successful AI Implementation course. Knowing best practices for implementing AI on a large scale is critical for the success of your project. Continue rea...

Many companies are trying to adopt AI at their organization. However, it’s important to have the right mindset and methodologies in place when adopting a transformative technology. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Sagar Indurkhya who is Head of NLP at Virtualitics. He shares with us challenges he has seen organizations face regarding AI and M...

The legal profession is still largely dominated by humans. However, AI and ML is steadily being adopted, enhancing legal processes and activities of all sorts. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, Cognilytica analysts interview Rick McFarland, Chief Data Officer at LexisNexis. He shares with us some of the challenges with AI adoption in the legal profession as well as some of the opportunities...

This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. In our education we go into great detail explaining and breaking down AI, including applications of AI. Because, it’s one thing to learn the terms and concepts of AI but it’s another thing to see how AI can actually be applied. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Education Se...

AI and advanced big data analytics have been transforming organizations and helping them get answers from their largest datasets for years. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Antonio Cotroneo, Director of Technical Content Strategy at OmniSci. He shares how big data analytics has evolve over the past few years, how different industries are embr...

At Cognilytica we’re spending lots of time educating our customers about Artificial Intelligence and related topics and areas. This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription where we dig deeper into the foundations of Data Science. The course is for those looking to get a foundational level overview of data science and provi...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we’ll share some of our insights and key findings from a recent Cognilytica market intelligence coverage area. We’ll be digging deeper into the state of worldwide laws and regulations and in particular data and AI laws. In recent research, Cognilytica analyzed over 200 countries with specific emphasis of various regions, states, and territories to figure out...

This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. While automation is not intelligence, the real value of automation, especially software automation and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) comes from removing the bot from the human. In this podcast we’ll explain in more detail what attended and unattended bots are as well as the...

The role of automation, and more intelligent forms of process automation, have played a big role for companies during the pandemic. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview James Spencer who is a Solutions Engineer Manager at Blue Prism. He shares with us how important robotic process automation (RPA) has become since the pandemic dramatically change...

Heineken has leveraged AI and ML to help with a variety of things at the company . In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Raam Roch Hai who is Engineering Chapter Lead at Heineken. He shares with us examples of how Heineken has leveraged AI and ML, some of the challenges highly distributed organizations like Heineken face with adoption of ML and AI, as well as general issues and chal...

For many years companies in the financial services industry have been at the forefront of using technology to help with many operations and processes. In this interview podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Sravan Kasarla, Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Thrivent Financial. He discusses how AI is currently being applied in financial services, where the financial services industry ra...

AI Ethics is a critical topic that organizations adopting or building AI systems need to consider. In recent research, Cognilytica analyzed over 60 ethical AI frameworks produced by governmental organizations, corporations, multinational groups, non-profits, and other groups. We learned a lot about the state of those AI Ethics frameworks, and this podcast will share some of those insights that wil...

To the surprise of some, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a very large funder of many AI projects every year. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering at National Science Foundation. He discusses some of the projects that the NSF has funded. Contin...

As organizations continue to hire more data scientists it’s important to make sure they are being utilized to emphasize their skill sets. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ylan Kazi, Vice President, Data Science and Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group. He shares with us his thoughts on why it’s important to leading data scientists the right...

The Federal Government continues to modernize their management of data, including data governance and analytics. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Justin Marsico who is the Chief Data Officer at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a part of the United States Department of the Treasury. Justin oversees the Fiscal Service’s provision of data to the public, including on USAspending.go...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Matt Chambers, Principal Architect & Juan Buhler, Sr. Data Science Engineer at Boon AI. They share with us some challenges they see organizations face today with trying to make sense of their unstructured data, especially video data, as it relates to AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Insights into No-...

On the AI Today podcast we often discuss how AI is being applied at the federal level. However many states are also facing many of the same data challenges, hiring needs, and adopting AI technologies as well. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Joy Bonaguro, Chief Data Officer for the state of California. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data and AI at the State level, interview...

As companies begin to move machine learning models into production there are a variety of factors that need to be addressed. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Gideon Mendels, CEO of Comet. He discusses challenges organizations face today with trying to bring ML models into production, why it’s important to have a tool for data scientists and teams t...

The finance and banking industries have long been ahead of other industries with their adoption of AI. From fraud detection, to roboadvising, to NLP applications the finance industry is adopting every pattern of the Seven Patterns of AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Agus Sudjianto, Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk at...

AI is transforming the federal workplace, allowing employees to work more productively and efficiently. However with this technology comes the need for oversight considerations for policymakers and federal managers related to such issues as the right to privacy, accuracy of results, safety assurances, and algorithmic oversight. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dr. Continue read...