AI Today Podcast

Many countries have taken a strategic approach to AI. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Lindsey Sheppard, Associate Fellow with the International Security Program at Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on the competitive, global race for AI dominance. She shares insights into how various countries seek to leverage AI, how countries are approaching concepts of AI ethics, responsibility, and governance, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #105: State of AI Worldwide: Interview with Lindsey Sheppard, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into the Conversation / Human Interaction pattern. The objective of this pattern is machines interacting with humans the way humans interact with each other. We spend time in this podcast going over various use cases and how industry is using this pattern for things such as Chatbots, Voice assistants, Content generation, Sentiment / mood / intent analysis, and Machine Translation.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #104: Patterns of AI – Conversation / Human Interaction at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Naveen Rao, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel. He shares with us how various training tools have evolved over the past few years to help teams more quickly train and deploy AI models and how companies need to maintain and manage models as they move from the training phase to the inference phase.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #103: Insights into AI’s future with Naveen Rao, Corporate VP & GM of AI Products group at Intel at Cognilytica.

Robots continue to be used in a variety of ways for useful and creative purposes. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Adam Cantor and Erika Angle from Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE). They share how underwater robots are helping control the invasive lion fish population, some of the technical challenges they encountered developing an underwater robot, and how they were able to transfer technology and knowledge from industry (particularly iRobot) to help make this robot a reality.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #102: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jonathan Patrizio, Head of Technical Advisory and Alexa Evangelist at Mobiquity and Randy Sanborn, Principal Solutions Architect at Mobiquity. Both guests share how the market for voice assistants has evolved over the past five years, how organizations should approach conversational applications, and more.This podcast was recorded live in person at the Amazon re:Mars event.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #101: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Interview with Mobiquity at Cognilytica.

We have a special episode for you — #100! We’ve just entered the triple digits on episode numbers, so it’s worth celebrating. In this episode, we cover a number of hot topic issues around the question of whether or not AI is overhyped. We look at what’s happening with end-users in the enterprise and public sector, vendors, the $1B Microsoft investment in OpenAI, and what’s happening in the general ecosystem.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #100: Episode 100! Is AI Overhyped? at Cognilytica.

In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Arti Garg, Emerging Market and Technology Director at Cray to gain insights into how AI is being used and implemented in government and industry. She also shares insights into how companies should approach AI and how to select the best technology vendor from the 3,000+ vendors in the landscape to fit your needs and desired outcomes.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #99: AI Adoption in the Government and Beyond – Interview Arti Garg – Cray at Cognilytica.

For many years Amazon has been leading the way with using AI and machine learning in many parts of their business. In this podcast we interview three Vice Presidents to showcase various ways Amazon uses AI. Our guests include Roger Barga, General Manager, AWS Robotics, Srikanth Thirumalai, Vice President, Search, and Chuck Moore, Vice President, Alexa Shopping.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #098: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Amazon Executive Interviews Provide Insights into Amazon’s Use of AI at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dr. Philip Alvelda, CEO of Brainworks. He shares his thoughts on government’s role with regard to responsible and ethical AI, how new laws such as GDPR impact AI, whose role it is (companies or governments) to regulate AI, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #97: Insights into AI Privacy, Ethics, and Regulations: Interview with Dr. Alvelda, CEO Brainworks at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dale Brown, VP, Business Development & Operations at Figure Eight live in person at the Amazon re:Mars event. For those of our listeners that were not able to attend this event was June 3-7, 2019. Dale shares with us what organizations need to consider when trying to get a machine learning project off the ground and why high quality data matters for AI projects.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #096: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Data Prep & Labeling: Interview with Dale Brown, Appen Figure Eight at Cognilytica.