AI Today Podcast

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we’ll share some of our insights and key findings from a recent Cognilytica market intelligence coverage area. We’ll be digging deeper into the state of worldwide laws and regulations and in particular data and AI laws. In recent research, Cognilytica analyzed over 200 countries with specific emphasis of various regions, states, and territories to figure out the real state with regards to laws and regulations around AI and related areas.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Revisiting Worldwide Laws and Regulation around Data and AI at Cognilytica.

This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. While automation is not intelligence, the real value of automation, especially software automation and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) comes from removing the bot from the human. In this podcast we’ll explain in more detail what attended and unattended bots are as well as the benefits of each.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Education Series: Attended and Unattended RPA Bots at Cognilytica.

The role of automation, and more intelligent forms of process automation, have played a big role for companies during the pandemic. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview James Spencer who is a Solutions Engineer Manager at Blue Prism. He shares with us how important robotic process automation (RPA) has become since the pandemic dramatically changed the way people work, examples of RPA in practice, as well as what he predicts the future of process automation will be and how AI is changing process automation for the better.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI’s role in process automation, Interview with James Spencer, Blue Prism at Cognilytica.

Heineken has leveraged AI and ML to help with a variety of things at the company . In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Raam Roch Hai who is Engineering Chapter Lead at Heineken. He shares with us examples of how Heineken has leveraged AI and ML, some of the challenges highly distributed organizations like Heineken face with adoption of ML and AI, as well as general issues and challenges related to enterprise data science.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI at Heineken, Interview with Raam Roch Hai at Cognilytica.

For many years companies in the financial services industry have been at the forefront of using technology to help with many operations and processes. In this interview podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Sravan Kasarla, Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Thrivent Financial. He discusses how AI is currently being applied in financial services, where the financial services industry rates in their adoption of AI compared to other industries, as well as how can companies create a responsive business especially from an AI perspective.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in Finance, Interview with Sravan Kasarla, Chief Data Officer of Thrivent at Cognilytica.

AI Ethics is a critical topic that organizations adopting or building AI systems need to consider. In recent research, Cognilytica analyzed over 60 ethical AI frameworks produced by governmental organizations, corporations, multinational groups, non-profits, and other groups. We learned a lot about the state of those AI Ethics frameworks, and this podcast will share some of those insights that will help you as a builder, user, or participant in the AI ecosystem.Continue reading AI Today podcast: The State of Ethical AI Frameworks 2021 at Cognilytica.

To the surprise of some, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a very large funder of many AI projects every year. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering at National Science Foundation. He discusses some of the projects that the NSF has funded.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Moving AI Innovation Forward, Interview with Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) at Cognilytica.

As organizations continue to hire more data scientists it’s important to make sure they are being utilized to emphasize their skill sets. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ylan Kazi, Vice President, Data Science and Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group. He shares with us his thoughts on why it’s important to leading data scientists the right way, what are some of the key traits you look for when hiring data scientists, as well as some of the barriers to ML adoption he has seen.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Leading Data Scientists The Right Way, Interview with Ylan Kazi, UnitedHealth Group at Cognilytica.

The Federal Government continues to modernize their management of data, including data governance and analytics. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Justin Marsico who is the Chief Data Officer at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a part of the United States Department of the Treasury. Justin oversees the Fiscal Service’s provision of data to the public, including on USAspending.gov and shared with us some of the unique opportunities around data at the federal level, challenges in data governance, security, ownership, as well as what areas of seeing AI he sees effectively being used in the federal government.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Challenges in Federal AI Adoption, Interview with Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer at the Bureau Of The Fiscal Service at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Matt Chambers, Principal Architect & Juan Buhler, Sr. Data Science Engineer at Boon AI. They share with us some challenges they see organizations face today with trying to make sense of their unstructured data, especially video data, as it relates to AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Insights into No-Code ML: Interview with Matt Chambers & Juan Buhler, Boon AI at Cognilytica.