Virtual agents and chatbots have been proving useful at organizations. But is their real potential yet to be tapped? In this episode of the AI Today Podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Pat Calhoun who is CEO of Espressive. He shares with us where he thinks virtual agents are headed in 2023 including why he thinks virtual agents will be the next Intranet, what the pervasiveness of chatbots means for organizations, and the impact virtual agents will have on the way we work. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Where Virtual Agents are headed in 2023, Interview with Pat Calhoun, CEO of Espressive at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define AI Today the term Conversational Systems. We also define the terms Chatbots, Voice Assistants, and Machine Translation and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI Glossary Series – Content Summarization & Analysis,Sentiment Analysis AI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human Interaction AI Today Podcast #012: Chatbots – Are they Useful? Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series-Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine Translation at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define Content Summarization and Analysis and Sentiment Analysis. We explain at a high level what these terms are and how they relate to AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI Glossary Series – Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine Translation AI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human Interaction Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Content Summarization and Analysis, Sentiment Analysis at Cognilytica.

Cybernetics has actually been around longer than the term AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define what Cybernetic systems are at a high level. Show Notes: FREE Intro To CPMAI Mini Course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Glossary Series: Cybernetics at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer have a discussion with the hosts of PM Point of View Podcast Kendall Lott and Mike Fortezza. We discuss why project managers should pay attention to AI, why data-centric approaches are needed to run AI projects, and how CPMAI can enhance PM’s ability to run data projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI and Project Management Fit Together: Interview with Kendall Lott and Mike Fortezza, PM Point of View Podcast at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Speech-to-Text, Test-to-Speech, and (Automated) Speech Recognition. We share how these terms are related and how they fit into AI. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Glossary Series – Content Summarization & Analysis, Sentiment Analysis AI Glossary Series – Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine Translation AI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human Interaction Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Natural Language Processing (NLP), NLU, NLG, Speech-to-Text, TTS, Speech Recognition at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define Autonomous Systems, as well as related terms including Levels of Autonomy, Autonomous vehicle, and Autonomous (automated) Retail. Show Notes: FREE Intro to CPMAI mini course CPMAI Training and Certification AI Glossary AI Today Podcast #112: Patterns of AI – Autonomous Systems AI Today Podcast #055: Autonomous Business Process (ABP) AI Today Podcast #37: Life with Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles The AI-Enabled Future AI Today Podcast #29: The First Autonomous Vehicle Fatality — Now What? Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series- Autonomous Systems at Cognilytica.

Like all technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not immune to the waves of obscurity, hyped promotion, plateauing of interest, and decline. In fact, the AI industry has been through two such major waves of interest, hype, plateau, and decline, commonly referred to as the “AI Winters”. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define an “AI Winter” at a high level. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: AI Winters at Cognilytica.

On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders who are implementing AI and cognitive technology at various companies and agencies. However we are seeing the cross section of AI and project management and felt it was important to bring in PM experts to the discussion. In this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Bob Payne who is host of the Agile Toolkit podcast. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: An Agile Perspective on AI – Interview with Bob Payne, host of the Agile Toolkit podcast 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. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define at a high level the seven patterns of AI and explain how they can be used to shortcut AI projects. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Seven Patterns of AI at Cognilytica.