AI Today Podcast

On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an autonomous Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian crossing the road — the first fatal autonomous vehicle accident on a public road to occur. We’ve now crossed the realm from the theoretical of what could happen in this scenario to the reality of the situation actually happening.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #29: The First Autonomous Vehicle Fatality — Now What? at Cognilytica.

Buckle your seatbelts. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer explain their vision for what the AI-Enabled Future looks like. Cognilytica believes that AI will impact all aspects of business, personal, and social life, and in this podcast, they explain the four major aspects in which AI will impact our every day lives.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #028: The AI-Enabled Future at Cognilytica.

AI is impacting all industries and aspects of society, and music is no exception. In this AI Today podcast, we interview YouTube Celebrity, actress, and musician Taryn Southern who has released an album entirely produced and composed by AI called “I  AM AI”. We discuss the four (and maybe even five) tools that Taryn used to produce this album as well as how easy it is for creatives to get started with AI in composing and working with music.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #027: AI in Music – Interview with Taryn Southern, YouTube Celeb and Musician at Cognilytica.

Chatbots, er… maybe we really mean Conversational Interfaces… are becoming more and more ubiquitous and part of our every day business and consumer lives. There’s a wide variety of both text- and voice-based conversational interfaces and devices. But the ones we’re most familiar with are the voice-based ones that sit on our countertops and office desks.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #026: Cognilytica Tested Voice Assistants, And You Might Be Surprised by the Results at Cognilytica.

In this podcast, we interview Matt Gardner who heads digital strategy for the St. Louis Blues professional hockey team (NHL). The St. Louis Blues have implemented an AI-powered Facebook Messenger bot tool to enhance the fan and spectator experience. Matt realized that fans  want to be engaged through social media moreso than websites and email.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #025: Interview with Matt Gardner, St. Louis Blues (NHL Hockey Team) – Facebook Chatbot Fan engagement at Cognilytica.

In this podcast, we are thrilled to interview Ofer Ronen, who is a general manager of Chatbase, which is a special project within the Google 120 internal project incubator. Chatbase is pioneering the space of chatbot analytics, and with the backing of Google it’s sure to be dominant in the market. In this podcast, we talk with Ofer about Chatbase, so-called “UMM” errors in chatbots, and also how the Google Area 120 internal incubator works to provide a hybrid startup / large company experience.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #024: Interview with Ofer Ronen, Chatbase and Google Area 120 at Cognilytica.

In today’s podcast, we’ll address some interesting hot topics that have recently been making news in the AI industry. In particular, Cognilytica senior analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer talk about Hanson Robotics’ Sophia Robot that’s been making significant waves in popular media and press. We talk about whether Sophia is really advanced, how it’s helping … or not… the field of AI, and if it’s making advances in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).Continue reading AI Today Podcast #023: Hot Topics – Sophia Robot and Andrew Ng’s new $175M AI Fund at Cognilytica.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)  is making significant improvements into company’s operations by replacing rote human activity with automated tasks. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to give this new engine of productivity a gigantic boost. Systems that leverage machine learning (ML) to dynamically adapt to new information and data will shift these systems from mere robots that automate processes to Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) tools that can significantly impact the face of the knowledge worker economy.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #022: Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) at Cognilytica.

In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts interview Santiago Braje, Global Head of Credit Trading at ING, who is the primary lead of “Project Katana”, a special AI-driven internal project funded by ING’s innovation fund. The goal of project Katana is to provide an Augmented Intelligence platform that assists bond traders in market making. The primary problem they are solving is how to respond to request to bond clients where there isn’t a central exchange and orders are done over the counter.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #021: “Project Katana” – Interview with Santiago Braje, Global Head of Credit Trading at ING at Cognilytica.

Many see the future of artificial intelligence (AI) as the replacement of human activities with fully autonomous agents, freeing up  or replacing existing human labor to provide greater value for the organization. However, for many companies, fully substituting autonomous agents for their human counterparts is not technically possible at the moment and also may not be feasible or practical.Continue reading AI Today Podcast #020: Augmented Intelligence at Cognilytica.