
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

Aug 2, 2023 • 58min
Women in AI & Robotics: What role can AI play in robotics safety?
We spoke with Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki from TU Darmstadt about safety, robot perception, LLMs and models for robotics.
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We thank our partner Siemens
Thanks to Women in AI and Robotics (more)
PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich
https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning
We thank our team:
Barbara, Anne and Simon!
Our guest: Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki

Jul 26, 2023 • 35min
Realtalk: Industrial AI, LLMs and demand forecasting for retailers and intralogistics
Helmut Prieschenk, CEO from WITRON, and Franziskos Kyriakopoulos, founder of 7LYTIX from Linz, discuss ChatGPT, machine learning in logistics and demand forecasting for food retail.
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PLEASE fill out the survey from Gabriel Krummenacher and the ETH Zurich
https://www.zuehlke.com/en/machine-learning
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We thank our team:
Barbara, Anne and Simon!
Our guests:
Helmut Prieschenk (more)
Franziskos Kyriakopoulos (more)

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Jul 19, 2023 • 36min
Why everyone in the industrial sector should use/try code interpreter maybe for predictive quality.
We take a brief look back at our "AI in the Alps" event. Afterwards, Prof. Dr. Marco Huber from Fraunhofer IPA explains to us why he worked with the Code Interpreter all weekend and what the approach could mean for AutoML.
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Do not forget our event AI in the forest together with Hannover Messe. Our main topics: AutoML and TabPFN with Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter and his team. Feel free to contact us, if you are interested robert@aipod.de
Our guests:
Prof. Dr. Marco Huber (more)

Jul 12, 2023 • 50min
Object-Centric Process Mining
Wil van der Aalst, professor at RWTH Aachen University and the "godfather of Process Mining" gives an introduction into Process Mining and next explains what Object-Centric Process Mining is.
Wil van der Aalst, professor at RWTH Aachen University and the "godfather of Process Mining" gives an introduction into Process Mining and next explains what Object-Centric Process Mining is.
Shownotes:
Wil will be giving a keynote at Machine Learning Week Europe, In Berlin, November 15 + 16:
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Our guests:
Wil van der Aalst

Jul 5, 2023 • 49min
Women in AI & Robotics: Can truly reliable DL models exist on given hardware systems at all?
We are very proud to present the first edition of Women in AI & Robotics. Sheila Beladinejad's first guest is Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok from LMU Munich. Gitta asks the question: can truly reliable DL models even exist on given hardware systems?
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Barbara, Anne and Simon!
Shownotes:
Startup Funding (check out)
Our guest:
Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok (check out)

Jun 28, 2023 • 20min
AI in China: Socialist content for LLMs
Robert Weber met MERICS expert Rebecca Arcesati at Siemens' AI with purpose summit and discussed LLMs made in China, socialist content, how de-coupling should work and what the Chinese AI strategy looks like with the China analyst.
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Barbara, Anne and Simon!
Our guests:
Rebecca Arcesati (check out)

Jun 21, 2023 • 48min
Anniversary episode and how CLAAS designers use AI for CAD - 200 episodes Industrial AI Podcast
The agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS wants to cleverly reuse components from different product series in order to save manufacturing, development and storage costs. The enormous product complexity and diversity of variants makes it difficult.
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Barbara, Anne and Simon!
Peter as a giraffe
https://industriemedien.at/shop/videolist/hmi-maschinenbaugipfel-2018-interview-mit-peter-seeberg/
Our guests:
Fabian Hanke (check out)
Roger Tiako Poungue (check out)

Jun 14, 2023 • 22min
Supply Chain and Industrial AI - from prediction to prescriptive
Sascha Bütterling has over 20 billion data points per month. He and his team at Supplyframe have built a model from this and can make predictions about availability, delivery times or prices for electrical components.
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Our guest:
Sascha Bütterling (check out)

Jun 7, 2023 • 41min
Is Google the new Xerox? And Industrial AI trends from IoT Analytics
In the news section we have a lot of interesting announcements from Google/Alphabet. In the main part Robert talks to Knud Lasse Lueth from IoT Analytics about trends in Industrial AI and clarifies the question why companies are advertising fewer AI jobs.
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We thank our partner Siemens
Thanks to Women in AI & Robotics:
Check out https://www.womeninairobotics.de/
The Intrinsic podcast (check out)
More on Google (check out)
Our guest:
Knud Lasse Lueth more

May 31, 2023 • 47min
Timeseries data and ChatGPT? Limits of LLMs in industrial applications
Peter Seeberg talked to Hanna Behnke from Merantix Momentum about LLMs, industrial use cases, prompting and finetuning of the models.
Peter Seeberg talked to Hanna Behnke from Merantix Momentum about LLMs, industrial use cases, prompting and finetuning of the models.Hanna Behnke is Team Lead Machine Learning Project in Berlin. She explains a bit the LLMs architecure and dicsusses with Peter industrial application and the limits and the future of LLMs.
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We thank our new partner Siemens
Thanks to Women in AI & Robotics:
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Our guests:
Hanna Behnke more