AI Today Podcast

It’s one thing for us to talk about the Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) Methodology and the benefits it can bring to managers running AI and advanced data projects, but hearing directly how companies are applying the CPMAI Methodology can be incredibly valuable. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Charles Mendoza, who is Sr.

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If you have ever tried to apply Agile methodologies to your AI projects you’ve probably noticed that Agile is challenged by the requirements of AI systems. We need to evolve Agile Methodologies from a Data-First Perspective. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer revisit the Agile Manifesto and Agile Methodologies and share why AI and data-centric methodologies, and specifically CPMAI Methodology, are needed for running AI projects successfully.

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In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what AI in the cloud really means. They break down what is the cloud with a technical definition and then an economic definition to level set the topic and then dig into the question: What does AI have to do with the Cloud?

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Our AI Failures Series podcast was so popular we wanted to revisit some of the main reasons why we see AI projects fail. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer revisit the discussion around common reasons why AI projects fail. Not every vendor solution solves your problem, regardless of what they may tell you.

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Back in 2012 an article was published in HBR stating that Data Scientist was the sexiest job of the 21st Century. However, about a decade later, does this still hold true? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss how Data Project Manager is becoming the new sexy job title of the next decade, why certifications for PMs matter, and how certifications like CPMAI are quickly gaining traction in the PM community.

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Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI projects without taking the right steps to ensure their success. Agile and iterative approaches have become adopted best practices for application development projects, but why don’t we have something similar when it comes to advanced analytics, big data, and AI projects? Without using best-practices approaches that standardize steps for data preparation, data identification, and data protection, it’s hard to achieve the success you’re expecting, wasting money and resources, leading to failure.

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Like all technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not immune to the waves of obscurity, hyped promotion, plateauing of interest, and decline. In fact, the AI industry has been through two such major waves of interest, hype, plateau, and decline, commonly referred to as the “AI Winters”. Is the next AI Winter approaching? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss the 3 main reasons for a winter: decline in investment, interest, and research.

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Level 3 Intelligent Automation allows you to address the greatest challenges of unpredictability and variability and be able to achieve autonomous process discovery, autonomous process analytics, and autonomous process optimization. But is Level 3 Intelligent Automation right for your team or process? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what Level 3 Intelligent Automation is, what questions you need to ask to identify opportunities for Level 3 automation, and some of the challenges with Level 3 automation.

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Level 2 Intelligent Automation allows you to address greater challenges of unpredictability and variability. But how do you know if Level 2 Intelligent Automation is even right for your team? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what Level 2 Intelligent Automation is, how to go beyond NLP & computer vision to use cognitive technology to help spot patterns & anomalies, as well as some of the challenges Level 2 Intelligent Automation presents.

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Adding intelligence to automation enables greater degrees of variability and unpredictability. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what it means to have Level 1 automation to handle variability and unpredictability, how to incorporate NLP and computer vision to help handle tasks with unstructured data, some of the challenges Level 1 automation can present, and what the key ingredient to Level 1 automation is.

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