The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes
Art of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing Optimization
26 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Getting beyond the marketing and jargon on the homepage of AI companies and figuring out what's actually happening, what results are being driven in b...
Fundamentals of Natural Language Generation in Business Intelligence
19 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
You might be aware that some of the articles online about sports or financial performance of companies are article written by machines; this machine...
DarkTrace's Justin Fier - Malicious AI and the Dark Side of Data Security
12 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There is in fact a dark side to AI, although we're certainly not at the point where we need to fear terminators, but it's certainly been leveraged tow...
Startup Artificial Intelligence Companies in China
05 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Most of our recent investor interviews have been Bay area investors, like Accenture and Canvas, and we don't usually get to speak with investors overs...
How Data Lakes Support ML in Industry - with Cloudera's Amr Awadallah
26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you're going to apply machine learning (ML) in a business context, you need a lot of data, and algorithms across the board perform better with more...
Machine Learning for Media Monitoring - with Signal Chief Data Scientist
19 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One facet of business that nearly any industry has in common is the need to stay on top of news in their respective market, including competitor strat...
Tuning Machine Learning Algorithms with Scott Clark
12 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to tune an algorithm, how does it matter in a business context, and what are the approaches being developed today when it comes to t...
How to Raise Money for Your AI Startup – with Ben Narasin of Canvas Ventures
05 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, recorded live at Canvas Ventures in Portola Valley, I speak with Ben Narasin, a partner with Canvas and an avid venture investor in ...
How to Learn Machine Learning – an Investor's Perspective
29 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's been lot of hype around AI and ML in business over the past five years. Even among investors exist a lot of misconceptions about using ML in ...
Machine Learning in Infosecurity
22 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Uday Veeramachaneni is taking a new approach to machine learning in infosecurity, AKA infosec. Traditionally, infosec has approached predicting attack...
How to Hire Machine Learning Talent - with HIRED's Parshu Kulkarni
15 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to finding an expert on interviewing and finding machine learning (ML) talent, Parshu Kulkarni may just be the guy to ask. Not only is ...
How Algorithms Improve Advertising - AI for Marketing Optimization
08 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In marketing, there are lots of applications in AI and machine learning (ML), from recommendation engines to predictive analytics and beyond. At the c...
Automating White Collar Work - Two Examples and a Look Forward
01 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Not all knowledge work can be crunched by a program, but there are some hard-to-automate business processes that a select few entities are making an a...
When and How Will Autonomous Cars be Mainstream?
25 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak with CEO and Founder of Nexar Inc., Eran Shir, whose company has created a dashboard app that allows drivers to mount a smartphone...
How to Leverage Data Assets for Business - with Kenneth Cukier
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Senior Editor for the Economist in digital and data products and Co-author of "Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transfo...
How Executives Can Learn Machine Learning
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What are executives missing the boat on and what do they need to think about when it comes to AI and ML? This week, we speak with John Straw, who has ...
Artificial Intelligence in Stock Trading - Future Trends and Applications
15 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In many ways, AI and finance are made for each other. Machine learning and other techniques make it easier to identify patterns that might otherwise n...
Three Scenarios for the Future of Work in an AI Economy
10 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Market research and trends is important when discussing AI and business, but it's also worthwhile to contemplate the ethical and social implications f...
The Future of Advertising Attribution with Machine Learning
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A medium-size business with a $20M marketing budget can run into issues when aiming to track an attribute, what marketing dollars brought in customers...
Five Year Trends in Medical AI Applications
04 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I remember reading an article in Scientific American years ago about a poster of a person looking in the direction people sitting in a school dining r...
Cogitai's Mark Ring - Going Beyond Reinforcement Learning
01 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is about continual learning, a focus of Cogitai, a company dedicated to building AI's that interact and learn from the real world. Co...
Applying Computational Linguistics to Streamline the Legal Landscape
27 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There's not that many serial tech entrepreneurs in the legal space, but Gary Sangha is one of them. Sangha is CEO and founder of Lit IQ, which is appl...
OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever on Preparing for the Future of Intelligence
24 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Some organizations are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to help the world with research, some to help companies with marketing, and some are in...
Future Applications of Machine Vision - an Interview with Cortica's CEO
20 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, you can take a picture of a flower in your garden and post it on social media to see if anyone knows its proper name. Wouldn't it be nice,...
What is a GPU, and How Are Companies Using Them Now?
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Kimberly Powell, senior director of business development at NVIDIA. In an interview conducted at the 2016 AI Summit in San Franc...
Accenture's CTO on: The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence
13 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Accenture is a pretty large company in the tech space, providing services to many of the Fortune 500 and global equivalents. They recently conducted a...
Crowdsourcing a Machine Learning Hedge Fund
10 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Crowdsourcing is a relatively common term in technical vernacular today. Even if you're not a self-identified "techie", you may very may well have lev...
When Will Chatbots Reach Human Level Sophistication?
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What does the world look like when we can replicate human expertise in an assistant? Are we close to developing human-level chatbots that we can ask a...
Deep Learning Applications for Enterprise with Skymind's Chris Nicholson
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In one of our most recent consensus, we took a close look at future trends in artificial intelligence consumer applications, but it's also interesting...
Shopify's Kit - The AI Personal Marketing Assistant
30 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've interviewed a number of guests on TechEmergence, but very few who have had a serious part of their career in selling automobiles. But Michael P...
Martin Ford on the Rise of Workforce Automation
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Ford started off as a software entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, but became better known for his speaking and writing on robotics' and automation...
Scaling Virtual Assistant Services for Enterprise
22 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As Senior Director and World Wide Head of the Cognitive Innovation Group at Nuance Communications, Mark Hanson works on bringing Nuance lab innovatio...
Human Resource Management Meets Predictive Analytics
16 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know if you've made the right decision for a hire? Often, employers go off gut instinct and make a decision retrospectively, but it turns o...
Zillow: Data-Driven Real Estate Appraisals at Your Fingertips
13 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Big data is often a buzzword, but if you're trying to quantify data around homes in the U.S. and pair that with hard to quantify information - like ...
Network Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning
09 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When Google's DeepMind won against one of the best modern Go champions, is used multiple AI approaches and exposed gaps in some individual strategies....
MuleSoft's CTO Envisions Connected Machine Learning Network
06 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This episode's guest is Uri Sarid, CTO at Mulesoft. Sarid speaks about where he believes the future of machine learning (ML) applications in industry ...
Could Swarm Intelligence Be Used to Teach AI?
02 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It isn't by chance that birds fly in flocks and fish swim in schools - they're actually smarter when they act in a group. Could it be possible to ex...
How Companies Can Get Started Using Machine Learning for Business
29 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Predictive analytics and machine learning are all the rage in Silicon Valley, but how do companies actually derive value by leveraging these technolog...
The Business Value of Unstructured Data - with LoopAI Chief Scientist Patrick Ehlen
24 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in this episode has spent a large part of his life on figuring out how to make machines more intelligent. LoopAI Chief Scientist Patrick Eh...
Pitching Angel Investors on Technologies They Don't Understand
22 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Senior Vice President of SPARK, an economic development organization dedicated to getting startups and other early-stage companie...
Why Big Data in Business Still Needs Human Intuition
17 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For some companies, big data remains an abstraction; for others, it's an integral part of the lifeblood of a business. Mat Harris is vice president a...
Investing in Artificial Intelligence - With Motus Ventures' Robert Seidl
14 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Companies looking to raise money are often asking what investors think of their company, their industry, and how they're making investment decisions i...
The Future of Chatbots and Personal Assistants at Nuance's AI Lab
11 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's interview was recorded live at Nuance's Silicon Valley office with guest Charlie Ortiz, director of the AI and Natural Language (NL) Proc...
Comet Labs' Saman Farid - An Investor's Take on the AI Landscape
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Fifteen years ago, investing in AI may have seemed a bit far-fetched, but today it's not at all a rare occurrence; however, it's more rare to find e...
DeepMind's Nando de Freitas - Why Deep Learning is Like Building with Legos
04 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most memorable moments from this interview is when our guest mentioned that Larry Page hired him to solve intelligence; very few people can...
Your.MD's CEO on the Future of AI in Medicine
01 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Matteo Berlucchi, the founder of Your.MD, which uses artificial intelligence to create one of the first personal he...
Sumo Logic CTO - How Machine Learning Shines Light on Business Blind Spots
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
CTO and Co-founder of Sumo Logic Christian Beedgen gives his take on how to glean return on investment from applying machine learning to companies. Th...
Lucid VR's CTO Talks Machine Learning for Virtual Reality
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are often seen as different trends, but there is a lot of overlap in these areas, where you migh...
How Machine Learning Shapes Your eBay Experience
21 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
At Facebook headquarters, I learned there are 1 billion active users every month. In a more recent interview at eBay headquarters in San Jose, l learn...
Machine Learning Cyber Security May Help Speed Response to Hack Attacks
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, I speak with Igor Baikalov, Chief Scientist at cybersecurity company Securonix, about the trends in data security and where se...
Facebook Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Personalization
14 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we feature an in-person interview from Facebook's headquarters with Hussein Mehanna, director of engineering of the Core Machi...
What Can Machines Do That Lawyers Can't? A.I. Applications for Law
11 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When one thinks through important industry apps of AI, law or legal apps are not usually the first to jump to mind, but there's certainly a need. Rich...
Start with a Problem: How Fast-Growing Startups Can Leverage Machine Learning
06 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Learning about the research behind machine learning is always fun, but so is learning about the real-world applications. In today's episode, we're joi...
Technology Meta-trends and a Bird's Eye View of the Singularity
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have a guest who has interviewed more futurists than anyone else I know. While at TechEmergence a lot of our interviews focus on executives i...
How Business Event Data and Predictive Analytics Help Deliver Better ROI
30 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of companies in the San Francisco Bay make the claim that they can do something great with data; many fewer are at a degree of scale to make thi...
How Natural Language Processing Helps Mattermark Find Business Opps
28 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Natural language processing (NLP) sounds cool in theory. We're familiar with Siri and Echo of course, but where does it play a role in other companies...
A Close Up of Computer Vision with Shutterstock
24 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've spoken in the past about computer vision on the TechEmergence show, but we haven't covered much about it in industry apps. Few businesses have b...
Searching for Higher Ground in Rough Seas of Emerging Tech Governance
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to focusing on industry applications of artificial intelligence and emerging technology, we also focus on ethical and societal impacts of ...
Predictive Analytics Offers Customized Solutions to Complex Problems
17 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The artificial intelligence field is normally seen as burgeoning and new, populated with lots of small, scrappy companies aiming to become the next de...
Follow the Data: Deep Learning Leads the Transformation of Enterprise
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Artificial intelligence (AI) can be seen as a progression in our scalability of labor." This quote comes from this week's guest, Naveen Rao, who rece...
Building to Scale: How Yahoo! Turns Machine Learning into Company-Wide Systems
10 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Many employers (and employees) are familiar with the 'painful' learning curves of using multiple software products or platforms at once, but these may...
Pulling Back the Curtain on Machine Learning Apps in Business
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
If you're in the San Francisco Bay area, it's not all that novel to be trained in or working on some form of AI; however, to be doing so in the 1980s ...
Machine Learning Opening New Doors in Human Resource Industry
03 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about applying AI and data science to different areas of business, we often think about those domains that offer a wide swath of quantit...
From Past to Future, Tracing the Evolutionary Path of FinTech
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There are hedge funds and financial institutions that already use real-time data and sentiment analysis from social media, articles and videos in real...
NLP Systems Have a Lot to Learn from Humans
26 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, it would have been difficult to talk into your phone and have anything meaningful happen. AI and natural language processing (NLP) have...
Insights on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Data Science and Industry
19 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to data science and machine learning, what are the related skills that are getting people jobs and what are the industries that are supp...
How Cognitive Computing Can Change the Nature of Business Operations
12 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When you go to Harvard Business School and then to McKinsey company to work in private equity, there's really only one thing left to do - go to Silico...
Machine Learning Still Getting Sea Legs in the World of Midsize Business
05 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
While we've featured quite a few companies that use and implement AI systems, we've more rarely gone behind the scenes with companies or consultants p...
Machine Learning Not a Crystal Ball, But It Brings Clarity to Investment Decisions
29 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tad Slaff is the founder of Inovance, the creator of TRAIDE - a strategy creation platform that use machine learning algorithms to help traders uncove...
How Gaming Could Win Us More Adaptable Artificial Intelligence
21 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's more common to ask what AI can to do to win at games, but it's less common to ask what games can do to help develop AI. This is a particularly fi...
Is Embodied Intelligence a Necessity for Flexible, Adaptive Thinking?
15 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is intelligence? For some researchers, it may be quite possible to create an intelligent machine 'in a box', something without physical embodimen...
Why Big Data is Not Necessarily the Best Data for Business
08 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You're a business, and you've collected data - now how do you now make sense of it? Bring in a technology called 'sentiment analysis', a form of machi...
Advocating a More Sustainable Business Culture in an Automated World
01 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does automation influence society today? This is an open-ended question with likely endless answers that can be observed in many different areas o...
How Will the World Be Different When Machines Can Finally Listen?
24 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's in-person interview is with Dr. Adam Coates, who spent 12 years at Stanford studying artificial intelligence before accepting his current...
Closing Gaps in Natural Language Processing May Help Solve World's Tough Problems
17 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
People often mark progress by what they see, but there's often much more going on behind the scenes, the up and coming, that marks actual current prog...
The Rise of Neural Networks and Deep Learning in Our Everyday Lives
10 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How do neural networks affect your life? There's the one that you walk around with in your head of course, but the one in your pocket is an almost con...
Fear Not, AI May Be Our New Best Creative Collaborators
03 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Statements about AI and risk, like those given by Elon Musk and Bill Gates, aren't new, but they still resound with serious potential threats to the e...
Neural Nets Just One Strand in a Braided Approach to Building Strong AI
27 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
TechEmergence has had a number of past guests who have talked about neural networks and machine learning, but Dr. Pieter Mosterman speaks in-depth ab...
Open-Minded Conversation May Be Our Best Bet for Survival in the 21st Century
27 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Few astrophysicists are as decorated as Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, who was a primary contributor to the big-bang theory and named to the honor...
Putting the Art in Artificial Intelligence with Creative Computation
13 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about AI, we often think about optimizing some particular task. In most circumstances through computation there is an optimal chess move...
How Machine Learning Builds Meaning from Our Chats, Tweets, and Likes
06 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There's a small lab in Pennsylvania that may know your gender, age, and understands facets about your personality, whether you're introverted or extr...
AT&T Predicts Future, Save Service with Machine Learning
28 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've featured a number of artificial intelligence researchers on the show, but today we switch gears and dive into the business side of the industry....
Snuggle up with Technology, But Don't Leave Empathy in the Cold
21 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Are we losing something with technology? There are two sides to every argument, including this one. Dr. Sherry Turkle is of the belief that there's en...
Putting the Horse Before the Cart May Lead the Way to Artificial General Intelligence
14 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of AI applications are not really "smart", at least not in the sense of the word as most humans might envision a true artificial intelligence. I...
Brain Gains on the Road to Mapping a Personal Connectome
07 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It goes without saying that the brain is difficult to understand, with the billions of neurons, fine individual synapses between each neuron, and the ...
Deciphering the Discovery Engines that Decipher Our Digital Wants and Needs
31 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ever had the perfect book recommended to you by Amazon or gave a pleasantly-surprised thumbs up for a song selected for you by Pandora? Both services ...
When Many Intelligent Agents are Better than One
24 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The beauty of a platform like eBay is that you can set a price that you're willing to spend and let eBay do the bidding long after you've left the sit...
A Global Call to Ban Autonomous Killer Robots for Good
17 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last decade, many first-world militaries have developed, and in some cases deployed, autonomous "killer" robots. Some proponents believe th...
Seeing the World through Machine Eyes - with Dr. Irfan Essa
10 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us forget that just about a decade ago, Facebook's software was incapable of tagging people in a photo, but today can so without difficulty, s...
Navigating the Uncanny Valley with Character Robots
03 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever seen a humanoid robot and felt creeped out? In this episode, we talk with Robotics Engineer Derek Scherer about the psychology of the un...
Conscious Evolution of an Economic Social Contract
27 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Most of society functions based on a general social contract i.e. we work to contribute to society and earn income to acquire goods. Those who can't e...
Turning Up the Synaptic Noise to Create Machines that Dream
20 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Neural network - it's almost a buzz word, but it was looked down on during certain periods of AI development. Nonetheless, most of the public is not a...
Artificial Intelligence's Double-Edged Role in Cyber Security
13 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber security is closely linked to advances in artificial intelligence. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy about the cyber securi...
Get into the Machine's Head to Better Understand Your Own
06 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's common knowledge that scientists study the brain to understand how to replicate intelligence in machines; it's less commonly known that scientis...
The Spirit in the Machine May Not Be So Far Out
29 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Over 100,00 years ago, it may have been advantageous for human beings to be hyper aware of other living things for the purposes of survival. In the fu...
Wanted: Emotionally Intelligent AI that Understands the Human Mind
22 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us can admire AI such as Siri, Watson, and other agents shaping the fabric of future AI-powered entities, but it's also possible to admire the...
A Wealthier, Healthier Society through Increased Automation?
15 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. James D. Miller, an Economics and AI researcher who received his doctorate from the University of Chicago, sheds light on how economics factors ...
Welcome to AI Kindergarten
08 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Danko Nikolic, a scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, asks and works to answer questions about how our physical neuronal co...
Calling Siri Names? You're Not Alone
01 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
After receiving her PhD in Computer Science from the University of New York in 2002, Dr. Sheryl Brahnam's research interests steered her toward study...
Trending Now: The Evolution of Strong Artificial Intelligence
25 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joscha Bach is a software developer and researcher, who is currently developing a cognitive AI framework at MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Progr...