AI Today Podcast

At a very fundamental level facial recognition is a way of recognizing a human face through technology. Seems straight forward enough, right? Not so fast. For many industries, facial recognition technology is still a gray area, clouded with mystery and mistrust. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer provide an overview of how facial recognition works, discuss the concerns and issues around facial recognition technology, news about how the technology was misused or raised ethical concerns, and pose the question: Is facial recognition technology a technology that is too difficult to get right in practice?

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Machine learning algorithms need examples of data from which they can learn, especially supervised machine learning algorithms. However, one big challenge for those looking to put machine learning into practice is the lack of a sufficient quantity of good quality data examples from which to train systems. To address the needs for large quantities of high quality data, vendors have emerged to provide computer-generated data, known as synthetic data, that matches the range and quality of data needed to train systems.

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This podcast episode provides a snippet of Cognilytica’s AI and ML education from our Cognilytica Education Subscription. Data is at the heart of AI. It should be no surprise then that proper data management is crucial for AI projects. This podcast is an excerpt from our Cognilytica Education course discussing data pipelines. In this clip we discuss the training pipeline the inference pipeline.

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As the markets for Data, Automation, Analytics, and AI continue to evolve, so too does Cognilytica’s coverage of these areas. In today’s podcast we discuss how we are expanding our current Cognilytica Classification of the AI Vendor Ecosystem to include a data infrastructure layer. Within this layer falls data generation, big data storage and query, and data engineering and DataOps.

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In order for many machine learning algorithms to be trained, especially supervised learning algorithms, they need to be fed relevant data along with the desired meaning of the data. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer provide an overview of the data labeling market, what “ground truth” labeling is, the different data labeling and annotation needs, and data labeling and annotation use cases.

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On today’s AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer are going to do their annual AI Market Forecast & Trends. They will spend some time reflecting on what they are seeing in the market and where they forecast the AI markets will go in 2022. They will talk about the Data Labeling, Data Engineering & Preparation, ML Platforms, ML Ops, and RPA markets.

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With 2021 quickly fading into the rear view mirror it’s time to do our annual yearly AI recap. On today’s podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer are going to take a look back at 2021 as it relates to AI and share some of the hottest news from the past year, including acquisitions and fund raises, and some of our favorite podcasts of 2021.

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AI is not new – in fact the term was coined in 1956. Why then, if it’s been around for decades, and we are now on our third major wave of AI interest and hype, do we keep making the same mistakes that have brought us to two previous AI Winters? Are we still overpromising what AI can deliver?

Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Failure Series – Overpromising and Underdelivering at Cognilytica.

Earlier in 2021, The National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) published their final report that presents the NSCAI’s strategy for winning the artificial intelligence era and provides a strategy to get the United States AI-ready by 2025. On this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer had the opportunity to interview Gilman Louie who is one of 15 commissioners for the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) and co-founder and partner of Alsop Louie Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm.

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For anyone following AI, it should come as no surprise that countries around the world are taking a vested interest in AI. In 2021 the NSCAI published their final report explaining the steps the United States must take to responsibly use AI for national security and defense, defend against AI threats, and promote AI innovation.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner for the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) at Cognilytica.