On this week's episode of Women in AI Podcast, we're joined by Kat James, Senior Data Scientist at Royal Mail, who explains how recommender systems help them deliver the 50 million letters across the UK 6 days a week.

How should we consider the societal impact of AI from conception to production? Catherine, Senior Lecturer in Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University shares her work in social responsibilities when creating AI. Learn about bias, ethics & more.

Honglei joins us today to discuss how AI is transforming retail in various areas such as computer vision and pattern recognition for image detection and classification. Honglei Li is currently a senior lecturer in Enterprise Information Systems at Department of Computing & Information Sciences, Northumbria University.

Today, we chat with Ann about her work in NLP and conversational speech recognition as well as her current role as Voice UI/UX Design Leader at Sound United. While doing a PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics at UCSD, Ann's interest in phonetics and NLP led to a dissertation using neural networks to model how speakers of a language form new words via paradigm patterning and token analogy.

AI assistants are making a huge impact in healthcare, and another really exciting company that have created a virtual assistant is Sense.ly, whose virtual nurse avatar, Molly, helps people engage with their health. Today i’m going to be chatting to their VP of user experience, Cathy Pearl to hear more about how Molly helps patients. Cathy as worked on everything from helicopter pilot simulators at NASA to a conversational iPad app in which Esquire magazine’s style columnist tells you what you should wear on a first date.

Depression is the leading cause of disability globally, and the cost of mental illness to society has doubled in the last 10 years in every region of the world. Alison Darcy, CEO and Founder of Woebot Labs is joining me today to discuss her work in addressing the mental health crisis with a chatbot that delivers cognitive behaviour therapy.

Is Deep Learning just a field of technical research that won’t affect the general public? Absolutely not - we’ve not seen such a powerful and disruptive technology since the inception of the internet itself - deep learning is transforming every industry it touches from finance to healthcare, self driving cars to smart cities. Mai joins us today to discuss the importance of making the application of deep learning accessible and hassle free for businesses. Even when a business understands the importance of AI and the impact it can have in industry, it’s hard to know where to start and how to afford the relevant staff and technologies.

Lisha from Amplify Partners joins us today to discuss her work in funding companies who are using machine learning and data to solve problems.

On this episode, Zeynep from the University of Amsterdam and the Max Planck shares her expertise exploring zero-shot learning as a method to scale up visual category recognition as well talking about discovering and synthesizing novel concepts with minimal supervision.

Aparna joins us to discuss her work in driving Facebook's program to build new algorithms for ranking and personalization, and shipping them to power products for over 2 billion people.