AI Today Podcast

Cognilytica tracks almost 3000 companies that offer AI-specific or AI-enhanced products for sale in the market. However, as you can imagine, there’s a great amount of diversity in these vendors. Some vendors focus on providing low-level “enabling” infrastructure that supports any range of AI, machine learning, or other compute- or data-intensive activity. Others provide a single-industry application that applies AI to a particular, specific business or industry problem.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #76: Cognilytica’s Classification of the AI Vendor Ecosystem at Cognilytica.

In heavily regulated industries such as the energy industry there can be some unique challenges to technology adoption.  In this podcast we interview Tim Custer, Senior Vice president – North America land, business development and real estate with Apache. We discuss how AI and ML technologies are being used to extract valuable information from unstructured content, how Apache is leveraging AI technologies to help with a variety of tasks such as contract review, some unique use cases for AI and ML technology, and more!

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #75: AI in Oil & Gas: Interview with Tim Custer – Apache at Cognilytica.

Knowledge graphs and other ways to encode the relationship between data concepts are putting common sense into AI and machine learning. In this podcast, we interview Chaitan Baru, Senior Advisor, Data Science Research Initiatives at University of California San Diego, and formerly serving a four year rotation at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he helped with a number of initiatives including the Big Data program and Data Science-related activities.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #74: Knowledge Graphs and AI, Interview with Chaitan Baru, UCSD at Cognilytica.

One of the biggest challenges with AI is making sense of the decisions made by black box machine learning algorithms. In this episode of the AI Today podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Steve Eglash, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University to discuss Explainable AI, Responsible AI, and how to get AI systems to behave in a more testable, provable, and error-free way.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #73: Tackling Transparent & Responsible AI – Interview with Steve Eglash, Director of Strategic Research Initiatives, Stanford University at Cognilytica.

AI and machine learning are impacting just about every industry, and the oil and gas industry is no exception.  AI and ML are helping companies with unstructured content and data, as well as augmenting human jobs without replacing them. Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Joel Hron, CTO at ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #72: Interview with Joel Hron, CTO, ThoughtTrace at Cognilytica.

2018 proved to be a great year for AI-related technology and companies alike. We saw countries across the world adopt AI strategies, VC funding for AI focused startups go gangbusters, and industries of all types from retail, pharmaceutical, restaurants, logistics, healthcare and so many more benefit from AI technologies. If you haven’t heard our recap of 2018 AI related news makers and market shakers, you should definitely go and listen to that (after this podcast of course).

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #71: What does 2019 Have in Store for AI? at Cognilytica.

2018 is over and boy was it a crazy year! AI continued to show its strength in 2018, and certainly shows no signs of slowing as we make our way to 2019. In this podcast Cognilytica analysts look back on the year and reflect on some of 2018’s biggest AI news, trends and use cases.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #70: 2018 — Cognilytica’s AI Year in Review at Cognilytica.

Cognilytica analyst Kathleen Walch recently moderated a panel in November 2018 on “Driving Digital Transformation through AI and Deep Learning”. The following recording is the live panel discussion. We discuss fundamental buildings blocks needed for building a digital organization, process changes brought about from AI technologies that companies of all sizes are adopting, examples of digital transformation projects that depend upon AI to succeed, and more!

Continue reading AI Today #69: Driving Digital Transformation through AI and Deep Learning at Cognilytica.

AI and machine learning are being used in almost every industry, and the oil and gas industry is no exception. Want to know the various ways in which the oil and gas industry is adopting AI? Listen to this podcast as Cognilytica analysts Kathleen Walch and Ronald Schmelzer interview Catalina Herrera, Director of Education and Enablement at ThoughtTrace, a company applying AI to processing documents many decades old.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #68: Interview with Catalina Herrera, Director of Education and Enablement, Thought Trace at Cognilytica.

Robots are gaining adoption across a wide range of industries. Recently, the Smithsonian Institution has started to use Softbank Robotics’ Pepper robot to add value to the the visitor museum experience. In this podcast, Cognilytica analysts Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch interview Kristi Delich, Deputy Director, Office of Visitor Services, Smithsonian Institution on how Pepper is being used at the museum, potential future uses, and observations from how the general public interacts with a robot in a museum environment.

Continue reading AI Today Podcast #67: AI in the museum: Interview with Kristi Delich, Deputy Director, Office of Visitor Services, Smithsonian Institution at Cognilytica.