AI Today Podcast

American Express has been very forward thinking with their use of AI, in particular around pattern and fraud detection. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Rajat Jain who is Vice President and Global Head for Identity and Authentication Strategy at American Express. He shares with us how machine learning can be applied successfully to detect and catch fraud, how AI and machine learning are being used for the overall customer experience at American Express, and some surprising insights about AI adoption.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI and ML For Fraud Detection & Risk – Interview with Rajat Jain, VP Fraud & Risk Management, American Express at Cognilytica.

For many years banks have been at the forefront of using technology to help with many operations and processes. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jad Abou Maarouf who is Chief Data Officer at a regional mid-atlantic bank. He shares with us how banks are thinking about using automation and AI and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Human Side of Data for AI, interview with Jad Abou Maarouf, Chief Data Officer at Cognilytica.

AI can be an immense helping tool in augmenting human capabilities to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. However, as organizations and governments look to increasing use and adopt AI for a variety of different use cases it’s important to have discussions around the ethics of AI and make sure these systems are being used for good.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Branka Panic, Founder and Executive Director at AI for Peace at Cognilytica.

For people who have been following our podcast, you know that data is a central part to AI. Many of our listeners and Cognilytica clients need help around the Data life cycle including Data Engineering, Data Preparation, Data Labeling & Annotation, Sourcing Data and Data Generation for AI. We’re running The Data For AI Conference Week, taking place September 14-18, 2020, to address all this.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data for AI Conference Preview at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we explore various ways that banks are adopting AI technologies.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI Is Being Applied In Banking at Cognilytica.

Recently, adoption of AI in financial trading has seen a significant uptick. Wealth managers are using AI to help serve more clients. Traders are using AI and augmented intelligence tools to gain slight market advantages. And many are starting to see some real value gains from using AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into how AI is impacting the stock market and trading floor.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI is Being Applied to the Stock Market – Use Case Series at Cognilytica.

2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Wilson Pang, who is the CTO at Appen. He shares with us findings from Appen’s “2020 State of AI report” including where organization’s feel they are on their AI adoption journey, why an increasing number of enterprises are getting behind responsible AI as a component to business success, and how COVID-19 has impacted organization’s adoption of AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The 2020 State of AI – Interview with Wilson Pang, CTO at Appen at Cognilytica.

Many in the industry have varying views about AGI, and if or when it will ever be achieved. On this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO & Founder of the SingularityNET Foundation. He shares he views on where industry and academic research right now in terms of realizing the goals of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), what are some of the barriers right now to AGI research and adoption, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Is Artificial General Intelligence Coming Soon? Interview with Dr. Ben Goertzel, Founder & CEO, SingularityNET at Cognilytica.

The US Federal Government has made AI a priority and many agencies are pushing forward with their AI efforts. On this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Neil Chaudhry who is Director, AI Implementations at the AI Center of Excellence within the General Service Administration (GSA). He shares with us how adoption of new technologies such as AI can bring about unique challenges, why trustworthy and transparent AI is important to gain citizen trust in AI systems, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government – Interview with Neil Chaudhry, GSA at Cognilytica.

Intelligent, Autonomous robots have long been the dream of science fiction with shows and movies alike showing robots interacting and working with humans. However, despite this dream the current reality of robots is quite different. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share the current state of robotics, dig into why many robotics companies are going under, and a look to the future.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: What’s Happening with Robotics? at Cognilytica.