AI Today Podcast

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Patterns & Anomalies pattern of AI. The primary objective of this pattern is to find which one of the things is like the other and which is not. Example use cases include fraud detection and risk analysis, discovering patterns among data and surfacing insights, automatic error detection or correc...

In this episode of the AI Today we interview Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He discusses how AI is being implemented at JPL, and then more specifically about what NASA is doing and how AI is being applied in space, both on other planets and here at home. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #109: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Interview with To...

Content Intelligence solutions are now enabling enterprises to make unstructured content more valuable and equip digital workforces with the necessary skills and understanding to make intelligent business decisions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY to discuss how content intelligence is helping organizations derive meaning and intent of docum...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss results from Cognilytica’s Voice Assistant Benchmark 2.0. In this benchmark, Cognilytica evaluates the intelligence and knowledge graph capabilities of four voice assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant (Home), Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. We want to know — just how intelligent is the AI back-end? Conti...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Keith Nelson who is Global Head, Public Sector at Automation Anywhere.  He discusses the role RPA plays in moving public sector agencies up the ladder of intelligent automation, some interesting use cases he has seen, do’s and don’ts for agencies looking to get started with RPA and intelligent automation and more. Continue reading AI Today Podca...

Many countries have taken a strategic approach to AI. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Lindsey Sheppard, Associate Fellow with the International Security Program at Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on the competitive, global race for AI dominance. She shares insights into how various countries seek to leverage AI, how countr...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Conversation / Human Interaction pattern. The objective of this pattern is machines interacting with humans the way humans interact with each other. We spend time in this podcast going over various use cases and how industry is using this pattern for things such as Chatbots, Voice assistants, Content...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Naveen Rao, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel. He shares with us how various training tools have evolved over the past few years to help teams more quickly train and deploy AI models and how companies need to maintain and manage models as they move...

Robots continue to be used in a variety of ways for useful and creative purposes. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Adam Cantor and Erika Angle from Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE). They share how underwater robots are helping control the invasive lion fish population, some of the technical challenges they encountered developing an underwater robot, and h...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jonathan Patrizio, Head of Technical Advisory and Alexa Evangelist at Mobiquity and Randy Sanborn, Principal Solutions Architect at Mobiquity. Both guests share how the market for voice assistants has evolved over the past five years, how organizations should approach conversational applications, and more. This podcast was recorded live in perso...

We have a special episode for you — #100! We’ve just entered the triple digits on episode numbers, so it’s worth celebrating. In this episode, we cover a number of hot topic issues around the question of whether or not AI is overhyped. We look at what’s happening with end-users in the enterprise and public sector, vendors, the $1B Microsoft investment in OpenAI, and what’s happening in the general...

In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Arti Garg, Emerging Market and Technology Director at Cray to gain insights into how AI is being used and implemented in government and industry. She also shares insights into how companies should approach AI and how to select the best technology vendor from the 3,000+ vendors in the landscape to fit your needs and...

For many years Amazon has been leading the way with using AI and machine learning in many parts of their business. In this podcast we interview three Vice Presidents to showcase various ways Amazon uses AI. Our guests include Roger Barga, General Manager, AWS Robotics, Srikanth Thirumalai, Vice President, Search, and Chuck Moore, Vice President, Alexa Shopping. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #0...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dr. Philip Alvelda, CEO of Brainworks. He shares his thoughts on government’s role with regard to responsible and ethical AI, how new laws such as GDPR impact AI, whose role it is (companies or governments) to regulate AI, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #97: Insights into AI Privacy, Ethics, and R...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dale Brown, VP, Business Development & Operations at Figure Eight live in person at the Amazon re:Mars event. For those of our listeners that were not able to attend this event was June 3-7, 2019. Dale shares with us what organizations need to consider when trying to get a machine learning project off the...

Construction companies are increasingly using AI in a range of ways. 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. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer explore various ways AI is being used in the construction industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Goal Driven systems pattern. The objective of this pattern is to find the optimal solution to a problem through trial and error. We spend time in this podcast going over various use cases and how industry is using this pattern for things such as roboadvising, Resource optimization, bidding and real-t...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Mona Siddiqui, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Mona shares some insights into the use of AI and machine learning at HHS as well as how she sees AI playing a role with respect to healthcare, medicine, and improving people’s lives. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #93: AI Eth...

Enterprises are increasingly incorporating AI into their project management processes to make projects more strategic and to make better use of the data created by these processes. From AI chatbots, to intelligent bots that help automate project management duties such as project documentation and quality check activities, or AI-enhanced data visualization then helps identify bottlenecks and areas...

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Anthony Scriffignano , Senior Vice President & Chief Data Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet. We discuss The State of governance, big data, and ethics, and give a sneak preview of his talk at the upcoming AI World Gov event. He also shares his thoughts on the limitations of machine learning, and his insights on how organizations of all sizes...

Machine learning is great at identifying and understanding the real world and unstructured data.  ML can identify and understand images, sound, items, handwriting, faces, and gestures.  In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss various use cases in the recognition pattern on AI. Show Notes: Recognition & Computer Vision Workshop & Certification CPMAI TRAINING & CER...

Law enforcement is increasing seeing benefits from AI technologies including scanning video footage for anomalies, augmenting capabilities around surveillance and crowd control, transcribing audio, facial recognition technologies, and helping detect counterfeit items. Through AI, law enforcement agencies are enabled to do more than they ever could before to keep the peace, catch and identify and p...

In this podcast we interview Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Former Chair of the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Select Committee and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. We discuss ethical considerations governments need to address, possible laws and regulations that will need to be put into place around cognitive technologies, and how AI affects the labor mark...

Learning is not a one size fits all approach — what works for one person, may not work for a peer. This is why vendors and those in the industry have seen such huge potential for AI technologies to assist with learning and education. It’s already transforming the way students learn, providing assistance to teachers and smoothing application and admissions processes. Continue reading AI Today Podca...

Garbage in is garbage out. Nothing is more true in the world of AI. The market for data labeling is growing and becoming very important as more and more companies need clean, accurate, well-labeled data for ML training. In this podcast we share key stats and insights from Cognilytica’s recent Data Engineering, Preparation, and Labeling for AI 2019 report including AI’s secret, the market for data...