AI Today Podcast

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 courseCPMAI Training and CertificationAI GlossaryAI Glossary Series – Content Summarization & Analysis, Sentiment AnalysisAI 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: 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 courseCPMAI Training and CertificationAI GlossaryAI Today Podcast #112: Patterns of AI – Autonomous SystemsAI Today Podcast #055: Autonomous Business Process (ABP)AI Today Podcast #37: Life with Level 5 Autonomous VehiclesThe AI-Enabled FutureAI 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.

It’s one thing for us to talk about the Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) Methodology and the benefits it can bring to project managers running AI and advanced data projects, but hearing directly how individuals are applying the CPMAI Methodology and how it has directly benefit their projects can be incredibly valuable. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Andre Barcaui who is a Brazilian project manager and professor and he is also CPMAI certified.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Applying CPMAI in the real world, Interview with Andre Barcaui, CPMAI at Cognilytica.

Rather than replacing humans with autonomous agents, businesses and agencies can see significant value in enhancing the capabilities of their existing staff and leveraging AI as a “force multiplier” that enables them to do more with their existing resources. This is the key idea behind the concept of Augmented Intelligence. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss the idea of augmented intelligence and what it means when AI can be used to assist humans, rather than replacing them.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Augmented Intelligence at Cognilytica.

On the AI Today podcast we regularly interview thought leaders and practitioners who are implementing and managing AI and cognitive technology projects at various companies and government agencies. However in this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Galen Low, host of The Digital Project Manager podcast and co-founder of the Digital Project Manager.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Galen Low, host of The Digital Project Manager podcast at Cognilytica.

Sometimes, talking about what is and isn’t AI isn’t helpful given the lack of a commonly accepted definition of AI. Instead we find that using the term Cognitive technologies when we’re talking about goals of Machines mimicking and approaching Human Intelligence can provide much better results.In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer define the term Cognitive Technology.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series: Cognitive Technology at Cognilytica.