
Industrial AI Podcast
The Industrial AI Podcast reports weekly on the latest developments in AI and machine learning for the engineering, robotics, automotive, process and automation industries. The podcast features industrial users, scientists, vendors and startups in the field of Industrial AI and machine learning. The podcast is hosted by Peter Seeberg, Industrial AI consultant and Robert Weber, tech journalist.Their mission: Demystify Industrial AI and machine learning, inspire industrial users.
The hosts:
Peter Seeberg is an Industrial AI and machine learning expert for the manufacturing industry. He worked over 25 years in IT (Intel) and 10 years in Automation. He co-initiated the Industrial Data Intelligence Startup (Softing) where he was responsible for managing machine learning projects in industrial environments. Today he advises companies when it comes to Industrial AI and machine learning. Together with Robert Weber, journalist for industrial topics, he discusses AI and ML applications, standards, and education topics, make or buy decisions as well as regulation for AI in manufacturing.
Latest episodes

4 snips
Mar 15, 2023 • 36min
Festo IO conference: MLOps is a buzzword, but...
Samir Araújo de Souza works as a Principal AI/ML Solution Architect at AWS. We talked to him at the io.conference by Festo. He explains us the MLOps strategy and why AWS is investing in hardware.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner Siemens
Our guest Samir

Mar 8, 2023 • 24min
Due-diligence for industrial AI startups
Franziskos Kyriakopoulos helps investors figure out if a company is really doing Industrial AI and what the quality of the data or the models are and if the business model works. He explains in the podcast how he does this and what role the AI Act plays.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner Siemens
Our guest Franziskos

Mar 1, 2023 • 50min
Why do you call TabPFN a revolution for data science?
Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter is one of the fathers of the AutoML approach. Now he has followed up and promised a revolution. TabPFN is its name. What is it?
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner Siemens
News:
Facebooks Language Model: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama
Arduino and ML: https://hackaday.com/2023/02/24/tiny-machine-learning-on-as-little-as-2-kb-of-ram/
Our guest: Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter
The TabPFN Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01848
The Summary: https://www.automl.org/tabpfn-a-transformer-that-solves-small-tabular-classification-problems-in-a-second/

Feb 22, 2023 • 34min
Industrial AI and Motion Control - how do we reduce engineering time?
Two Siemens engineers described us their reinforcement approach in a chocolate factory. One important asset is the digital twin of the plant.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner [Hannover Messe]
(https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/)
Some animations and videos you can find here
Our guests: Michel and Martin

Feb 15, 2023 • 58min
LSTM for ABB's Augmented Operator
In this episode we have three guests from ABB and talk about the Augmented Operator - what is it supposed to do, how was it built and where will it be used?
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner [Hannover Messe]
(https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/)
Shownotes:
Github CEO about Open Source and AI (more)
ChatGPT for business (more)
Our guests:
Arzam Muzaffar Kotriwala https://www.linkedin.com/in/arzam/
Benedikt Schmidt https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidtbenedikt/
John Pretlove https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-pretlove-4675121/

Feb 8, 2023 • 28min
How an Ex-MAN-employee uses reinforcement learning for factories
Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah from Phantasma simulated the driving behaviour of vehicles. Now he wants to bring the knowledge to the shop floor. Reinforcement learning is supposed to make factories more efficient.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner [Hannover Messe]
(https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/)
Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramakrishnananjundaiah/

Feb 1, 2023 • 24min
SDK for machine learning on the edge
Lamin from Infineon recommended that we talk to Jon Linden from Ekkono. The Swede explains his ML on the edge approach and why Volvo, Siemens and ABB work with him.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner [Hannover Messe]
(https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/)
Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-linden/

Jan 25, 2023 • 36min
More than an interface for open source AI-tools - what is AIUI?
Peter has written many letters and now Ernst Dieter Dickmanns is receiving The Order of Merit of Germany. We are very happy for him. In the main part we talk to Martin Schiele about his company and the ideas for the industry.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner Siemens
Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-schiele-2a3b747b/
Video
https://youtu.be/I39sxwYKlEE
Our Video/Pod with Dickmanns
https://youtu.be/UYDtI6njaNM
Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6nPhUG2i0
Schmidhuber and Dickmanns
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html
Time
a) https://time.com/6246119/demis-hassabis-deepmind-interview/
b) https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Jan 18, 2023 • 40min
IABG: How to safeguard AI?
Peter Seeberg discusses runtime assurance, safe AI and how IABG is working on it with Dr. Lukas Höhndorf.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner Siemens
Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-lukas-h%C3%B6hndorf-8b5a8211a/

Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 14min
What is Volkswagen's AI research working on?
Shortly before the end of 2022, we met with Patrick van der Smagt. He is Director of AI Research at VW Group.
The podcast is growing and we want to keep growing. That's why our German-language podcast is now available in English. We are happy about new listeners.
We thank our new partner Siemens
Our guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smagt?originalSubdomain=de
News:
Interview with Gary Marcus New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-gary-marcus.html
Questions? robert@aipod.de or peter@aipod.de