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The Cisco AI Insights Podcast

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Curious about the latest in AI? Cisco’s podcast unpacks artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning. Hosts Rafael Herrera and Sonia Marques welcome monthly guests, including AI PhDs and experts, better understand AI academic papers and discuss their impact in and out of Cisco. Whether you’re new to AI or an experienced pro, tune in for insights the technology shaping our future.

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EP. 6 - How Real-World Messiness Impacts AI Agent Success 30.06.2026 24:21

In this episode of the Cisco AI Insights Podcast, hosts Rafael Herrera and Sónia Marques are joined by Cisco ML Engineer Paul Mutawe to explore the fascinating paper, "Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks," which introduces a novel time horizon metric to evaluate how autonomously AI agents can execute complex, multi-hour engineering projects. The discussion looks at the r...

EP. 5 - Forecasting Mental Health with ML, Deep Learning and LLMs 29.05.2026 28:01

In this episode of The Cisco AI Insights Podcast, hosts Rafael Herrera and Sónia Marques are joined by Cisco’s Technical Leader in Machine Learning Engineering Leticia Fernandes to explore the groundbreaking study, "A Comparative Study of Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models for Mental Health Forecasting Using Smartphone Sensing Data," which evaluates ho...

EP. 4 - Can AI Pick Stocks by Reading the News? 29.04.2026 22:16

In this month’s episode of The Cisco AI Insights Podcast, hosts Rafael Herrera and Sónia Marques explore the evolving landscape of sentiment analysis with Cisco machine learning engineer Joan Rossello. The conversation centers on the research paper from Imperial College London, “FinDPO: Financial Sentiment Analysis for Algorithmic Trading Through Preference Optimization of LLMs,” which proposes a...

EP. 3 - Rethinking AI Performance Metrics 26.03.2026 27:26

In the latest episode of the Cisco AI Insights podcast, hosts Rafael Herrera and Sonia Marques are joined by Dr. Catarina Carvalho, a Cisco leader in machine learning engineering. Together, they unpack the complex academic paper " Multi-Crit: Benchmarking Multimodal Judges on Pluralistic Criteria-Following," developed by researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Waterloo. ...

EP. 2 - Unlocking Cost-Effective AI with Small Language Models 26.02.2026 22:27

In the latest episode of the Cisco AI Insights Podcast, hosts Rafael Herrera and Sónia Marques welcome Cisco AI operations engineer James Tidd for a discussion on the world of small language models (SLMs) and the evolution of efficient AI inference. Together, they unravel the complexities behind “Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding,” a groundbreaking paper from Google that ex...

EP. 1 - Building Better AI Agents 21.01.2026 22:57

In this month’s episode of The Cisco AI Insights Podcast, hosts Rafael Herrera and Sónia Marques welcome Giota Antonakaki, a Cisco leader in machine learning engineering, for an illuminating deep dive into a recent academic research shaping AI agent technology. Together, they unpack “The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs”, a paper challenging the common beli...