On today’s AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer are going to do their annual AI Market Forecast & Trends. They will spend some time reflecting on what they are seeing in the market and where they forecast the AI markets will go in 2022. They will talk about the Data Labeling, Data Engineering & Preparation, ML Platforms, ML Ops, and RPA markets. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The State of AI (and AI Today) heading into 2022 at Cognilytica.

The pace of worldwide adoption continues to accelerate. Not only are companies and researchers competing with each other for advantage in the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning, so too are entire countries. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer go over research on how different countries are approaching AI and their different legal and regulatory postures. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #131: AI Around the World: Strategies, Laws, and Regulations (2020) at Cognilytica.

While the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market is heating up, there are many that say that RPA is not AI per se, but rather a gateway on the path to cognitive automation. Automation Anywhere certainly agrees with this perspective, and in this interview, Manish Rai, VP of Product Marketing at Automation Anywhere shares insights into the RPA industry, the overlap with AI efforts, the new release around autonomous process discovery bots, and the future of cognitive automation. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #130: Future of Cognitive Automation: Interview with Manish Rai, VP, Automation Anywhere at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Colin Angle, Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot. He shares with us his thoughts on why autonomy is not intelligence, some exciting use cases and examples of robots he’s seen, and how customers have started to become more comfortable with robots inside their homes over the past 30 years. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #129: Interview with Colin Angle, Robotics Luminary, Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot at Cognilytica.

AI Global Forecast Continue reading AI Today Podcast #128: Global AI Adoption Trends at Cognilytica.

The legal profession is largely the domain of humans. However, despite the very human nature of the legal profession, artificial intelligence is increasingly making waves in the industry, enhancing legal processes and activities in ways that are not possible with humans alone. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss ways that AI is impacting the legal profession. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #127: AI in Legal at Cognilytica.

One of the most remarkable trends in artificial intelligence is the movement to autonomous retailing, which is the use of unmanned and cashier-less retail operations. In this AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss key players in the autonomous retail market, how these stores are changing the retail experience, and how this trend will impact jobs. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #126: Autonomous Retail at Cognilytica.

Government agencies are increasingly looking to use AI powered chatbots to help users and citizens more quickly get to the information they seek and increase the overall user experience. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Courtney A. Winship, Chief of the Digital Services Division in the Office of Citizenship and Applicant Information Services at U.S. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #125: Emma – Immigration Chatbot: Interview with Courtney Winship, US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) at Cognilytica.

Increasingly, we’ve seen some moves to combine different aspects of machine learning approaches together. What if we could find a way to train supervised learning approaches using less data? In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer will explore Semi-Supervised and One-Shot learning. We’ll define what it is, why it can be helpful, and possible use cases. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #124: Semi-Supervised and One-Shot learning at Cognilytica.

AI is playing an increasing role in helping researchers and conservationists identify and address the impacts of climate change on our planet. However, it’s also very compute and resource intensive contributing to carbon emissions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we discuss the good, bad, and ugly of AI and it’s impact on the environment. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #123: AI and the Environment at Cognilytica.

Facial recognition technology is still an area in AI that brings about mixed emotions. While there can be positive use cases for the technology such as enhanced convenience like checking into flights with just your face or helping law enforcement find missing persons or criminals, there are also many potential misuses for the technology as well including bias in systems misidentifying people and criminals using the technology for malicious reasons. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #122: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Facial Recognition at Cognilytica.

AI has continued at its unrelenting pace of adoption, investment and growth in both the private and public sectors. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share their predictions for where AI will make waves in 2020 including the growth of model-as-a-service, Machine learning ops (MLOps) systems, the continued focus on responsible and ethical AI as well as increased awareness around data usage. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #121: 2020 AI Predictions at Cognilytica.

With 2019 quickly fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to reflect on the year that was including some of the year’s biggest AI news headlines, AI use cases and activity. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss some of the big newsmakers and insights from this year in the world of AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #120: A Look Back at 2019 AI News Makers at Cognilytica.

AI in impacting just about every industry and e-commerce, retail, and supply chain management is no exception. In this AI Today podcast we interview Professor Dr. Michael Feindt, Strategic Advisor at JDA and Founder of Blue Yonder. He shares his insights into use cases for AI in retail/eCommerce space and beyond, how companies that are new on their AI journey can begin to adopt AI, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #119: Interview with Michael Feindt, JDA at Cognilytica.

Federal agencies are looking for potential AI use cases that can be implemented today and deliver real value. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Alex Measure, Economist at Bureau of Labor Statistics. He shares with us how he incorporated AI into BLS as well as some of the unique challenges that the federal government has around data usage that could be obstacles for agencies looking to use AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #118: Interview with Alex Measure, BLS at Cognilytica.

Machine learning models can be operationalized anywhere and we’re getting to a point now where it’s actually possible to do a lot with Javascript in your browser. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Gant Laborde, Chief Innovation Officer at Infinite Red. He discusses how he has seen this transformation evolve over the past year, which industries are seeing the most AI adoption, and how companies can get started with AI projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #117: AI in Javascript: Interview with Infinite Red at Cognilytica.

AI in Federal Procurement Podcast Continue reading AI Today Podcast #116: AI and Procurement in the Federal Government: Keith Nakasone, GSA at Cognilytica.

The public sector, both civilian and defense agencies, have a lot to gain from AI, from predictive analytics to autonomous systems such as unmanned drones, and even logistics management. In this podcast we interview Brigham Bechtel, Chief Strategy Officer, Intelligence and Defense at MarkLogic to discuss how government, and in particular the Navy, is using AI to help with mission success. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #115: AI, Navy, and the OODA Loop: Interview with Mark Logic at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Predictive Analytics / Decision Support pattern of AI. This pattern uses machine learning and other cognitive approaches to understand how learned patterns can help predict future outcomes or help humans make decisions about future outcomes using insight learned from behavior, interactions, and data. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #114: Patterns of AI – Predictive Analytics / Decision Support at Cognilytica.

One area that’s heating up is the idea of responsible AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Adam Murray from the U.S. Department of State in the Office of International Communications and Information Policy. He shares how the United States seeks to advance internationally our domestic approach to technology policy, particularly when it comes to responsible AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #113: International AI Standards: Interview with Adam Murray, US Dept. of State at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Autonomous Systems pattern of AI. Autonomous systems are defined as systems that are able to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or interact with its surroundings with minimal to no human involvement. This is applied both to physical, hardware autonomous systems as well as software or virtual autonomous systems (software “bots”). Continue reading AI Today Podcast #112: Patterns of AI – Autonomous Systems at Cognilytica.

In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Bob Gourley, CTO of OODA LLC, publisher of CTOVision and OODAloop.com. We discuss the opportunities and risks of AI as well as talk about the relationship between AI and cybersecurity and ways to deal with the security and reliability of AI. We recorded this podcast live at the AI World Government event in Washington, DC June 24-26, 2019. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #111: Secure & Reliable AI, Interview with Bob Gourley, OODA LLC at Cognilytica.

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 correction, intelligent monitoring, finding hidden groups of data, finding best matches to given data, predictive text, and similar applications. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #110: Patterns of AI – Patterns & Anomalies at Cognilytica.

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 Tom Soderstrom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Cognilytica.

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 documents, and add decision-making intelligence, use cases of how companies are successfully applying levels on content intelligence to their processes, and where he sees the future of AI taking corporations. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #108: Content Intelligence – Interview with Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY at Cognilytica.

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? Continue reading AI Today Podcast #107: Benchmarking the Voice Assistants 2.0 at Cognilytica.

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 Podcast #106: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Interview with Keith Nelson, Automation Anywhere at Cognilytica.

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 countries are approaching concepts of AI ethics, responsibility, and governance, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #105: State of AI Worldwide: Interview with Lindsey Sheppard, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) at Cognilytica.

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 generation, Sentiment / mood / intent analysis, and Machine Translation. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human Interaction at Cognilytica.

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 from the training phase to the inference phase. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #103: Insights into AI’s future with Naveen Rao, Corporate VP & GM of AI Products group at Intel at Cognilytica.

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 how they were able to transfer technology and knowledge from industry (particularly iRobot) to help make this robot a reality. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #102: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) at Cognilytica.

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 person at the Amazon re:Mars event. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #101: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Interview with Mobiquity at Cognilytica.

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 ecosystem. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #100: Episode 100! Is AI Overhyped? at Cognilytica.

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 desired outcomes. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #99: AI Adoption in the Government and Beyond – Interview Arti Garg – Cray at Cognilytica.

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 #098: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Amazon Executive Interviews Provide Insights into Amazon’s Use of AI at Cognilytica.

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 Regulations: Interview with Dr. Alvelda, CEO Brainworks at Cognilytica.

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 ground and why high quality data matters for AI projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #096: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Data Prep & Labeling: Interview with Dale Brown, Appen Figure Eight at Cognilytica.

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 #95: AI Use Case Series — AI in Construction at Cognilytica.

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-time auctions, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #94: Understanding the Goal-Driven Systems Pattern of AI at Cognilytica.

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 Ethics & Government: Interview with Mona Siddiqui US Department of Health & Human Services at Cognilytica.

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 where process improvements or other changes can be applied to improve overall performance AI is being used to provide a lot of efficiencies. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #92: AI Use Case Series — AI in Project Management at Cognilytica.

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 can deepen their machine learning expertise and build data science skills. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #91: The Present and Future of Data Science — Interview with Anthony Scriffignano, Senior Vice President & Chief Data Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet at Cognilytica.

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 & CERTIFICATION   Continue reading AI Today Podcast #90: Understanding The Recognition Pattern of AI at Cognilytica.

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 prevent threats before they occur, and speed up the time it takes to catch criminals and solve crimes. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #89: AI in Law Enforcement — Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

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 market. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #88: AI in the UK and Beyond – Interview with Lord Tim Clement-Jones at Cognilytica.

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 Podcast #87: AI Use Case Series — AI in Education at Cognilytica.

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 prep solutions, and why garbage data in produces garbage out. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #86: Insights into Data Preparation and Labeling for AI at Cognilytica.

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. Some use cases use a single pattern for their application while others combine a few together. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #85: The Seven Patterns of AI at Cognilytica.

The agriculture industry is turning to AI technologies to improve a wide range of agriculture-related tasks in the entire food supply chain including help yield healthier crops, control pests, monitor soil and growing conditions, help reduce the workloads, and organize data for farmers. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer discuss how AI is being used in the agriculture industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #84: AI in Agriculture — Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

In this podcast we interview Madelene Stolpe who is the Head of Digital Strategy, Health for the City of Oslo, Norway. We discuss how Oslo is exploring using AI technologies to help its citizens and also help move towards becoming a Smart Connected City, the role that AI plays with labor and employment and the future of jobs, and more! Continue reading AI Today Podcast #83: Interview with Madelene Stolpe, Head of Digital Strategy, Health, City of Oslo, Norway at Cognilytica.

In this podcast we get the rare opportunity to interview fellow podcasters. Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard are co-hosts of the Data Driven podcast and joined us on this episode of the AI Today podcast to discuss the important role data plays in AI, their take on how data will continue to be used into the future and the idea of pervasive knowledge. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #82: Interview Frank La Vigne and Andy Leonard with Data Driven Podcast at Cognilytica.

Sales are important for any organization. After all, if companies aren’t selling they are not generating revenue. Increasingly, enterprises are using AI in sales to improve their bottom lines. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer explain how AI, machine learning, and cognitive technologies are being applied to enhance the way sales is being done in the enterprise. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #81: How AI Enhances Sales — Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

Most of the resources we need to power our growing economies — oil, gold, copper, coal, and more– come from the ground underneath us.  Modern mining operations are increasingly turning AI and machine learning technologies to help keep those resources flowing without risking human lives. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts explore various ways that AI technologies are being used in the mining industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #80: AI in Mining — Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

A lot goes into the clothes we wear, covering a spectrum of activities including designing, manufacturing, logistics, marketing and sales. It’s no wonder that fashion and clothing manufacturing firms are applying AI technologies to transform various steps throughout the process. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer will discuss various ways AI is being used in the fashion industry. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #79: AI in Fashion — Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

The fight for customer attention is fierce and companies are increasingly turning to technology to discover new ways to help. Artificial intelligence is playing a major role in creating connected customer experiences throughout the entire customer lifecycle. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer explore various ways AI is improving the customer experience. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #78: AI in Customer Experience at Cognilytica.

Across many industries and implementations, we see some recurring themes pop up in those use cases. In past podcasts we’ve talked about chatbots, autonomous vehicles, and aspects of natural language understanding, computer vision, and advanced robotics. In today’s AI podcast we want to talk about the concept of hypersonalization, a particular use case that’s applicable across a wide range of industries, but advertising in particular. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #77: Hyperpersonalization – The Double-Edged AI Sword at Cognilytica.

Cognilytica tracks almost 3000 companies that offer AI-specific or AI-enhanced products for sale in the market. However, as you can imagine, there’s a great amount of diversity in these vendors. Some vendors focus on providing low-level “enabling” infrastructure that supports any range of AI, machine learning, or other compute- or data-intensive activity. Others provide a single-industry application that applies AI to a particular, specific business or industry problem. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #76: Cognilytica’s Classification of the AI Vendor Ecosystem at Cognilytica.

In heavily regulated industries such as the energy industry there can be some unique challenges to technology adoption.  In this podcast we interview Tim Custer, Senior Vice president – North America land, business development and real estate with Apache. We discuss how AI and ML technologies are being used to extract valuable information from unstructured content, how Apache is leveraging AI technologies to help with a variety of tasks such as contract review, some unique use cases for AI and ML technology, and more! Continue reading AI Today Podcast #75: AI in Oil & Gas: Interview with Tim Custer – Apache at Cognilytica.

Knowledge graphs and other ways to encode the relationship between data concepts are putting common sense into AI and machine learning. In this podcast, we interview Chaitan Baru, Senior Advisor, Data Science Research Initiatives at University of California San Diego, and formerly serving a four year rotation at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he helped with a number of initiatives including the Big Data program and Data Science-related activities. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #74: Knowledge Graphs and AI, Interview with Chaitan Baru, UCSD at Cognilytica.

One of the biggest challenges with AI is making sense of the decisions made by black box machine learning algorithms. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Steve Eglash, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University to discuss Explainable AI, Responsible AI, and how to get AI systems to behave in a more testable, provable, and error-free way. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #73: Tackling Transparent & Responsible AI – Interview with Steve Eglash, Director of Strategic Research Initiatives, Stanford University at Cognilytica.

AI and machine learning are impacting just about every industry, and the oil and gas industry is no exception.  AI and ML are helping companies with unstructured content and data, as well as augmenting human jobs without replacing them. Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Joel Hron, CTO at ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #72: Interview with Joel Hron, CTO, ThoughtTrace at Cognilytica.

2018 proved to be a great year for AI-related technology and companies alike. We saw countries across the world adopt AI strategies, VC funding for AI focused startups go gangbusters, and industries of all types from retail, pharmaceutical, restaurants, logistics, healthcare and so many more benefit from AI technologies. If you haven’t heard our recap of 2018 AI related news makers and market shakers, you should definitely go and listen to that (after this podcast of course). Continue reading AI Today Podcast #71: What does 2019 Have in Store for AI? at Cognilytica.

2018 is over and boy was it a crazy year! AI continued to show its strength in 2018, and certainly shows no signs of slowing as we make our way to 2019. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts look back on the year and reflect on some of 2018’s biggest AI news, trends and use cases. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #70: 2018 — Cognilytica’s AI Year in Review at Cognilytica.

Cognilytica analyst Kathleen Walch recently moderated a panel in November 2018 on “Driving Digital Transformation through AI and Deep Learning”. The following recording is the live panel discussion. We discuss fundamental buildings blocks needed for building a digital organization, process changes brought about from AI technologies that companies of all sizes are adopting, examples of digital transformation projects that depend upon AI to succeed, and more! Continue reading AI Today #69: Driving Digital Transformation through AI and Deep Learning at Cognilytica.

AI and machine learning are being used in almost every industry, and the oil and gas industry is no exception. Want to know the various ways in which the oil and gas industry is adopting AI? Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Catalina Herrera, Director of Education and Enablement at ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #68: Interview with Catalina Herrera, Director of Education and Enablement, Thought Trace at Cognilytica.

Robots are gaining adoption across a wide range of industries. Recently, the Smithsonian Institution has started to use Softbank Robotics’ Pepper robot to add value to the the visitor museum experience. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch interview Kristi Delich, Deputy Director, Office of Visitor Services, Smithsonian Institution on how Pepper is being used at the museum, potential future uses, and observations from how the general public interacts with a robot in a museum environment. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #67: AI in the museum: Interview with Kristi Delich, Deputy Director, Office of Visitor Services, Smithsonian Institution at Cognilytica.

Curious how industrial technology companies are adopting Artificial Intelligence, robotics, and cognitive technology into their product lines and how these technologies help with innovation processes? In this podcast Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Frank DeSantis, VP of Breakthrough Innovation at Stanley, Black & Decker, Inc., and dig deeper into how AI and cognitive tech is changing the landscape for industrial goods and how these emerging technologies will change the way that consumers and business interact with physical devices and tools in the real world. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #66: AI & Robotics at Stanley black and Decker – Interview with Frank DeSantis, VP Breakthrough Innovation at Cognilytica.

Interested in knowing how AI and machine learning can process documents over a century old and still gain understanding from the text? Want to know how the oil and gas industry is adopting AI? Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nick Vandivere, CEO of ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #65: Interview with Nick Vandivere, CEO, ThoughtTrace at Cognilytica.

Machines are able learn how to process images and text and extract intelligence from those images and text. But they still don’t understand the images of know the meanings of words. We’re still at the early days of AI with respect to common sense and real natural language understanding. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interviewCatherine Havasi, Chief Strategy Officer of Luminoso on the current state of the art with Natural Language and what Luminoso is doing to move the industry forward. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #64: Common Sense and Natural Language Understanding – Interview with Catherine Havasi, Luminoso at Cognilytica.

Interested in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality (AR), and Virtual Reality (VR)? Curious how AI is being used in the entertainment, gaming, and media industries to enhance the overall experience? Listen to this podcast where Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Mariana Acuña Costa, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Opaque Studios as she shares insights into the use of AI in these various industries, how AI can help with content creation, how these industries with continue to adapt and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #63: AI, AR, and VR: Interview with Mariana Acuna, Opaque Studios at Cognilytica.

Film, media, and entertainment industries are using AI and machine learning technologies to enhance and change the way that entertainment is produced, developed, and delivered. In this Cognilytica AI Today podcast, hear from Hanno Basse, Chief Technology Officer of 20th Century Fox Film Corp about how AI, machine learning, and cognitive technologies are forever changing the way that entertainment is being brought to the masses. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #62: AI in the Entertainment Industry – Interview with Hanno Basse, CTO, 20th Century Fox at Cognilytica.

Did you know that many of the articles and news reports you are reading are generated by AI systems? Using natural language generation (NLG) and other techniques these AI systems are not only creating content, but they are helping to manage the editorial process, moderate comments, help with research, and support the entire journalistic process. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #61: AI in News & Journalism — Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

Social media is filled with lots and lots of content and most of it is unstructured data, meaning that it doesn’t fit into databases or rows and columns on a spreadsheet. In particular, lots of text, images, video and audio content is posted daily. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Nav Kesher, Head of Data Sciences, Facebook Marketplace Experience on his insights and experience on AI and its various applications in different industries. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #60: Interview with Nav Kesher, Head of Data Sciences, Facebook Marketplace Experience at Cognilytica.

Public defenders in the United States are burdened with large workloads and ever-increasing piles of information they need to sort through. Additionally, they are deeply needed in an environment where defendants are unable to afford the legal protection they are entitled to under the rights of the constitution. This is one problem that AI and machine learning is promising to solve. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #59: The Tubman Project – Interview with Darrell Malone Jr. at Cognilytica.

Anyone observing the news can see that artificial intelligence and machine learning are getting lots of attention. As long as a startup has AI or cognitive technologies in their business plans or marketing material, they seem to get funding. And the amount of funding some of these startups are getting is eye-opening! So this makes us ask the question: Are we in a bubble? Continue reading AI Today Podcast #057: Is VC Funding for AI Overheated? at Cognilytica.

For our podcast listeners and followers, we have a special treat for you on this podcast. Be our special virtual guest and listen to an expert panel from the Conference on Technology and Future Economy 2018 talk about AI and Blockchain. Moderated by Professor Jim Liew (Johns Hopkins University), panelists were Reem El Seed (Deloitte), Kathleen Walch(Cognilytica), Jose Arrieta(US Department of Health & Human Services [HHS] formerly with the General Services Administration [GSA]), David Martens (Dovel Technologies), and Michael Novak (DTP). Continue reading Bonus AI Today Podcast: AI & Blockchain Panel from TFE 2018 Event at Cognilytica.