AI Today Podcast

At first glance, it may seem that digitization has nothing to do with AI. However, digitization is a necessary first step to extracting value from data that is locked in non-digital assets or human-based processes. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss digitization, digitalization, and how this fits into the world of AI including sharing some surprising findings about where organizations and governments are today on their journey towards digitization.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Digitization, Digitalization, and how this fits into AI at Cognilytica.

While the concepts behind machine translation are fairly easy to grasp, the process of actually doing fully automated language translation is extraordinarily complex. So, where does the industry stand with regards to machine translation? In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into this topic discussing the evolution of machine translation, exploring the current state of the art around machine translation, and why it’s such a hard problem to solve.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Where Are We With Machine Translation? at Cognilytica.

If you’ve been following our podcast and research, it should come as no surprise that the US Federal Government is making AI a priority. On this episode of the AI Today podcast we have Krista Kinnard who is Director, Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence at Technology Transformation Services (TTS) at the General Services Administration (GSA).Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government – Interview with Krista Kinnard, GSA at Cognilytica.

AutoML tools are becoming more widely adopted and changing the way companies use AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jorge Torres, Founder and CEO at MindsDB. He shares with us how AutoML is helping accelerate machine learning model development, the trend that Developers are becoming the new Data Scientists, some of the challenges companies face adopting AutoML tools and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Insights into AutoML – Interview with Jorge Torres, Founder and CEO at MindsDB at Cognilytica.

AI continues to be used to enhance the human experience through art, music, language and other aspects. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia recently created the MURMUR project, the world’s FIRST AI Art Exhibit Space. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Anton van den Hengel, a professor at the University and a creator of the MURMUR project to discuss how this project came about, additional research projects, why AI is so hot in Australia right now.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Global Perspectives on AI – Interview with Anton van den Hengel at University of Adelaide in Australia at Cognilytica.

As people, companies, and governments are being asked to do more with less people, automation is playing an increasingly role is handling tasks and helping keep things on schedule. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Chris Townsend who is Area Vice President, Federal at UiPath. He shares with us how automation and RPA is helping deal with significant shifts in the way that the world works, interactions with companies and governments, and changes in global supply chains.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Advancing intelligent automation: Interview with Chris, AVP, Federal, UiPath at Cognilytica.

LinkedIn has been at the cutting edge of AI for many years and uses AI in many ways users may not be aware. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Igor Perisic, Chief Data Officer (CDO) and VP of Engineering at LinkedIn. He shares with us how LinkedIn is applying AI and how it’s enhancing the user experience, how data regulations such as GDPR and California’s Consumer Privacy Act impact data used for your AI-enabled systems, and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI at LinkedIn – Interview with Igor Perisic, Chief Data Officer (CDO) and VP of Engineering at Cognilytica.

It’s no surprise that AI will have an impact on the workforce from chatbots, recognition systems, or predictive analytics tools. But what happens when workplaces require employees to use tools that collect data on them such as facial recognition technology? In this podcast we interview Valerio De Stefano, Professor of Labour Law at KU Leuven to discuss how AI will broadly impact the workforce.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Changing the Workforce, Interview with Valerio De Stefano at Cognilytica.

Humans have long dreamed of machines that could function and perform just like other humans. However, giving machines emotional IQ has been an incredibly hard problem to solve. Aniket Bera and his team of researchers had the idea to create AI systems that can detect emotion based on gait. The applications for this type of robot can be seen in many industries including healthcare, law enforcement, and others especially in the time of social distancing.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Detecting Emotion Through Gait – Interview with Aniket Bera, Assistant Research Professor in Computer Science at University of Maryland GAMMA lab at Cognilytica.

The US Federal Government has made AI a priority. In this podcast we interview Suzette Kent who is the US Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) to discuss how the US government will adopt AI across agencies, how they will address the need to reskill and upskill the workforce, and what the US needs to do to remain a leader in AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in the US Federal Government – Interview with Suzette Kent, US Federal CIO at Cognilytica.