

AI Today Podcast
AI & Data Today
The top podcast for those wanting no-hype, practical, real-world insight into what enterprises, public sector agencies, thought leaders, leading technology companies, pundits, and experts are doing with AI today.
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Jan 25, 2023 • 12min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Heuristic & Brute-force Search
The hosts discuss Heuristic & Brute-force Search in AI, emphasizing the importance of understanding these concepts. They explore how these terms are used in decision-making processes and problem-solving methods. The chapter highlights the significance of advanced techniques in machine learning beyond basic heuristics.

Jan 20, 2023 • 9min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Goal-Driven Systems & Roboadvisor
Explore the concepts of goal-driven systems and RoboAdvisor in AI, focusing on optimal solutions through reinforcement learning. Learn how these terms play a crucial role in AI applications, such as game playing, business operations, and financial planning. Discover how AI algorithms like AlphaGo and AlphaZero utilize problem-solving and reinforcement learning for optimal solutions, and how RoboAdvisors are used in the finance sector for automated financial planning assistance.

Jan 18, 2023 • 11min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Probabilistic & Deterministic
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the terms Probabilistic & Deterministic and explain how they relate to AI and why it’s important to know about them.Show Notes:FREE Intro to CPMAI mini courseCPMAI Training and CertificationAI GlossaryAI Glossary Series – Artificial IntelligenceContinue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series – Probabilistic & Deterministic at Cognilytica.

Jan 13, 2023 • 13min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Personalization, Recommendation, and Hyperpersonalization
The objective of the hyperpersonalization pattern of AI is to treat each individual as an individual. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Personalization, Recommendation, and Hyperpersonalization, how they are related, and why it’s important to have a light level understanding of these terms, and how machine learning makes hyperpersonalization possible.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Personalization, Recommendation, and Hyperpersonalization at Cognilytica.

Jan 11, 2023 • 14min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Recognition Systems, Computer Vision, ImageNet
The objective of the recognition pattern of AI is to have machines identify and understand the real world and unstructured data. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define and discuss at a high level the terms Recognition Systems, Computer Vision, and ImageNet, how they are related, and why it’s important to have a light level understanding of these terms.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Recognition Systems, Computer Vision, ImageNet at Cognilytica.

Jan 6, 2023 • 11min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Turing Test
Named after researcher and AI pioneer Alan Turing, the Turing Test aims to test whether a machine or system is “intelligent” by putting the system to a test. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the Turing Test at a high level and discuss if it’s now possibly an overly simplistic assessment of whether or not machines have achieved necessary levels of intelligence.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Turing Test at Cognilytica.

Jan 4, 2023 • 36min
AI Today Podcast: Where Virtual Agents are headed in 2023, Interview with Pat Calhoun, CEO of Espressive
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.

Dec 30, 2022 • 11min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series-Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine Translation
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 courseCPMAI Training and CertificationAI GlossaryAI Glossary Series – Natural Language Processing (NLP)AI Glossary Series – Content Summarization & Analysis,Sentiment AnalysisAI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human InteractionAI Today Podcast #012: Chatbots – Are they Useful?Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series-Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine Translation at Cognilytica.

Dec 28, 2022 • 10min
AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Content Summarization and Analysis, Sentiment Analysis
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 courseCPMAI Training and CertificationAI GlossaryAI Glossary Series – Natural Language Processing (NLP)AI Glossary Series – Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Machine TranslationAI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human InteractionContinue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Content Summarization and Analysis, Sentiment Analysis at Cognilytica.

Dec 23, 2022 • 11min
AI Today Podcast: Glossary Series: Cybernetics
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 CourseCPMAI Training and CertificationAI GlossaryContinue reading AI Today Podcast: Glossary Series: Cybernetics at Cognilytica.