AI Today Podcast

The public sector, both civilian and defense agencies, have a lot to gain from AI, from predictive analytics to autonomous systems such as unmanned drones, and even logistics management. In this podcast we interview Brigham Bechtel, Chief Strategy Officer, Intelligence and Defense at MarkLogic to discuss how government, and in particular the Navy, is using AI to help with mission success.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #115: AI, Navy, and the OODA Loop: Interview with Mark Logic at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Predictive Analytics / Decision Support pattern of AI. This pattern uses machine learning and other cognitive approaches to understand how learned patterns can help predict future outcomes or help humans make decisions about future outcomes using insight learned from behavior, interactions, and data.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #114: Patterns of AI – Predictive Analytics / Decision Support at Cognilytica.

One area that’s heating up is the idea of responsible AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Adam Murray from the U.S. Department of State in the Office of International Communications and Information Policy. He shares how the United States seeks to advance internationally our domestic approach to technology policy, particularly when it comes to responsible AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #113: International AI Standards: Interview with Adam Murray, US Dept. of State at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Autonomous Systems pattern of AI. Autonomous systems are defined as systems that are able to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or interact with its surroundings with minimal to no human involvement. This is applied both to physical, hardware autonomous systems as well as software or virtual autonomous systems (software “bots”).Continue reading AI Today Podcast #112: Patterns of AI – Autonomous Systems at Cognilytica.

In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Bob Gourley, CTO of OODA LLC, publisher of CTOVision and OODAloop.com. We discuss the opportunities and risks of AI as well as talk about the relationship between AI and cybersecurity and ways to deal with the security and reliability of AI.We recorded this podcast live at the AI World Government event in Washington, DC June 24-26, 2019.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #111: Secure & Reliable AI, Interview with Bob Gourley, OODA LLC at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Patterns & Anomalies pattern of AI. The primary objective of this pattern is to find which one of the things is like the other and which is not. Example use cases include fraud detection and risk analysis, discovering patterns among data and surfacing insights, automatic error detection or correction, intelligent monitoring, finding hidden groups of data, finding best matches to given data, predictive text, and similar applications.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #110: Patterns of AI – Patterns & Anomalies at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today we interview Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He discusses how AI is being implemented at JPL, and then more specifically about what NASA is doing and how AI is being applied in space, both on other planets and here at home.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #109: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Interview with Tom Soderstrom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Cognilytica.

Content Intelligence solutions are now enabling enterprises to make unstructured content more valuable and equip digital workforces with the necessary skills and understanding to make intelligent business decisions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY to discuss how content intelligence is helping organizations derive meaning and intent of documents, and add decision-making intelligence, use cases of how companies are successfully applying levels on content intelligence to their processes, and where he sees the future of AI taking corporations.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #108: Content Intelligence – Interview with Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss results from Cognilytica’s Voice Assistant Benchmark 2.0. In this benchmark, Cognilytica evaluates the intelligence and knowledge graph capabilities of four voice assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant (Home), Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. We want to know — just how intelligent is the AI back-end?Continue reading AI Today Podcast #107: Benchmarking the Voice Assistants 2.0 at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Keith Nelson who is Global Head, Public Sector at Automation Anywhere.  He discusses the role RPA plays in moving public sector agencies up the ladder of intelligent automation, some interesting use cases he has seen, do’s and don’ts for agencies looking to get started with RPA and intelligent automation and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #106: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Interview with Keith Nelson, Automation Anywhere at Cognilytica.