AI Today Podcast

In this episode of the AI Today we interview Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He discusses how AI is being implemented at JPL, and then more specifically about what NASA is doing and how AI is being applied in space, both on other planets and here at home.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #109: Live at Amazon Re:MARS – Interview with Tom Soderstrom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Cognilytica.

Content Intelligence solutions are now enabling enterprises to make unstructured content more valuable and equip digital workforces with the necessary skills and understanding to make intelligent business decisions. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY to discuss how content intelligence is helping organizations derive meaning and intent of documents, and add decision-making intelligence, use cases of how companies are successfully applying levels on content intelligence to their processes, and where he sees the future of AI taking corporations.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #108: Content Intelligence – Interview with Bill Galusha, VP Marketing at ABBYY at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss results from Cognilytica’s Voice Assistant Benchmark 2.0. In this benchmark, Cognilytica evaluates the intelligence and knowledge graph capabilities of four voice assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant (Home), Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. We want to know — just how intelligent is the AI back-end?Continue reading AI Today Podcast #107: Benchmarking the Voice Assistants 2.0 at Cognilytica.

In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Keith Nelson who is Global Head, Public Sector at Automation Anywhere.  He discusses the role RPA plays in moving public sector agencies up the ladder of intelligent automation, some interesting use cases he has seen, do’s and don’ts for agencies looking to get started with RPA and intelligent automation and more.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #106: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Intelligent Automation in the Public Sector: Interview with Keith Nelson, Automation Anywhere at Cognilytica.

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.