

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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May 4, 2022 • 31min
AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Level 2 Intelligent Automation
Level 2 Intelligent Automation allows you to address greater challenges of unpredictability and variability. But how do you know if Level 2 Intelligent Automation is even right for your team? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what Level 2 Intelligent Automation is, how to go beyond NLP & computer vision to use cognitive technology to help spot patterns & anomalies, as well as some of the challenges Level 2 Intelligent Automation presents.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Level 2 Intelligent Automation at Cognilytica.

Apr 27, 2022 • 40min
AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Advancing to Level 1 Intelligent Automation
Adding intelligence to automation enables greater degrees of variability and unpredictability. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what it means to have Level 1 automation to handle variability and unpredictability, how to incorporate NLP and computer vision to help handle tasks with unstructured data, some of the challenges Level 1 automation can present, and what the key ingredient to Level 1 automation is.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Advancing to Level 1 Intelligent Automation at Cognilytica.

Apr 20, 2022 • 52min
AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Starting with Level 0 Automation
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dive deep into Level 0 Automation, why so-called “dumb” automation provides tremendous value to your team when implemented correctly. This episode shares examples for immediate ROI with Level 0 automation, how your team should go about identifying and prioritizing opportunities for Level 0 automation, how to plan and iterate, then implement automation.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation Roadmap Series: Starting with Level 0 Automation at Cognilytica.

Apr 13, 2022 • 42min
AI Today Podcast: Automation to Intelligence Roadmap Series: What to automate?
For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However, what exactly do you automate? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss how to find automation opportunities in business processes, questions your team should ask when figuring out what to automate, and when and when not to start with “low hanging fruit”.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation to Intelligence Roadmap Series: What to automate? at Cognilytica.

Apr 7, 2022 • 54min
AI Today Podcast: Does AI Still Matter in 2022?
In our first ever AI Today podcast we asked the question “Does AI Matter?” and we revisited this question in our one year anniversary podcast as well. Now about 5 years from our first ever podcast episode we wanted to ask this question again: Does AI still matter in 2022? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig into this question and share how AI has changed and evolved over the past 5 years.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Does AI Still Matter in 2022? at Cognilytica.

Mar 30, 2022 • 43min
AI Today Podcast: Automation to Intelligence Roadmap Series – What is a Business Process?
For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However before even figuring out what to automate you should have a solid understanding of your business processes and tasks. But, what exactly is a business process? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what a business process is, define processes versus tasks, and bring this into the context of automation.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automation to Intelligence Roadmap Series – What is a Business Process? at Cognilytica.

Mar 23, 2022 • 30min
AI Today Podcast: Interview with Venkat Gunnu, Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast
Data science is transforming business and generating new value across the organization. However, for large organizations they need a centralized group that centers on a discipline’s vision, governance, technique, and framework. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer Venkat Gunnu who is Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Venkat Gunnu, Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast at Cognilytica.

Mar 16, 2022 • 50min
AI Today Podcast Roadmap Series: From Automation to Intelligence – What should we automate and why
For organizations who want to get started on their AI journey, a great first place to start is with automation. However, figuring out what to automate, why to automate, and what return on investment (ROI) it will provide can be tricky. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss level 0 automation – what is it, why organization should look to automate processes, and what questions to ask in order to get started.Continue reading AI Today Podcast Roadmap Series: From Automation to Intelligence – What should we automate and why at Cognilytica.

Mar 9, 2022 • 32min
AI Today Podcast: Implementing AI at Scale, Interview with Ella Hilal, Head of Data Science, Engineering, Revenue and Growth at Shopify
Shopify has over 1.7 million merchants across over 175 countries, with hundreds of millions of consumers shopping at their stores. By leveraging the scale of their data they are able to create new experiences for their merchants, and apply Machine Learning at scale. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ella Hilal, who is the Head of Data Science, Engineering, Revenue and Growth at Shopify.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Implementing AI at Scale, Interview with Ella Hilal, Head of Data Science, Engineering, Revenue and Growth at Shopify at Cognilytica.

Mar 2, 2022 • 29min
AI Today Podcast: What is AI Industrialization? Interview with Anil Kumar, Exec. Director at Verizon
As companies are looking to leverage cognitive technology, and deploying machine learning models, organizations need to make sure they have the correct people, processes, and technology in place to succeed. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss with Anil Kumar, Exec. Director AI Industrialization at Verizon what AI industrialization is and how Verizon is moving from pockets of AI/ML to AI/ML being implemented across the organization.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: What is AI Industrialization? Interview with Anil Kumar, Exec. Director at Verizon at Cognilytica.