AI Today Podcast

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Colin Angle, Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot. He shares with us his thoughts on why autonomy is not intelligence, some exciting use cases and examples of robots he’s seen, and how customers have started to become more comfortable with robots inside their homes over the past 30 years.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #129: Interview with Colin Angle, Robotics Luminary, Chairman, CEO and Founder of iRobot at Cognilytica.

AI Global ForecastContinue reading AI Today Podcast #128: Global AI Adoption Trends at Cognilytica.

The legal profession is largely the domain of humans. However, despite the very human nature of the legal profession, artificial intelligence is increasingly making waves in the industry, enhancing legal processes and activities in ways that are not possible with humans alone. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss ways that AI is impacting the legal profession.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #127: AI in Legal at Cognilytica.

One of the most remarkable trends in artificial intelligence is the movement to autonomous retailing, which is the use of unmanned and cashier-less retail operations. In this AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss key players in the autonomous retail market, how these stores are changing the retail experience, and how this trend will impact jobs.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #126: Autonomous Retail at Cognilytica.

Government agencies are increasingly looking to use AI powered chatbots to help users and citizens more quickly get to the information they seek and increase the overall user experience. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Courtney A. Winship, Chief of the Digital Services Division in the Office of Citizenship and Applicant Information Services at U.S.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #125: Emma – Immigration Chatbot: Interview with Courtney Winship, US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) at Cognilytica.

Increasingly, we’ve seen some moves to combine different aspects of machine learning approaches together. What if we could find a way to train supervised learning approaches using less data? In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer will explore Semi-Supervised and One-Shot learning. We’ll define what it is, why it can be helpful, and possible use cases.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #124: Semi-Supervised and One-Shot learning at Cognilytica.

AI is playing an increasing role in helping researchers and conservationists identify and address the impacts of climate change on our planet. However, it’s also very compute and resource intensive contributing to carbon emissions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we discuss the good, bad, and ugly of AI and it’s impact on the environment.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #123: AI and the Environment at Cognilytica.

Facial recognition technology is still an area in AI that brings about mixed emotions. While there can be positive use cases for the technology such as enhanced convenience like checking into flights with just your face or helping law enforcement find missing persons or criminals, there are also many potential misuses for the technology as well including bias in systems misidentifying people and criminals using the technology for malicious reasons.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #122: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Facial Recognition at Cognilytica.

AI has continued at its unrelenting pace of adoption, investment and growth in both the private and public sectors. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share their predictions for where AI will make waves in 2020 including the growth of model-as-a-service, Machine learning ops (MLOps) systems, the continued focus on responsible and ethical AI as well as increased awareness around data usage.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #121: 2020 AI Predictions at Cognilytica.

With 2019 quickly fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to reflect on the year that was including some of the year’s biggest AI news headlines, AI use cases and activity. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss some of the big newsmakers and insights from this year in the world of AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #120: A Look Back at 2019 AI News Makers at Cognilytica.