The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes
Training Self-Driving Cars in Simulations – The Future of Automotive
30 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Lange heads up the AI efforts at Unity, one of the better-known firms in terms of simulations and computer graphics. They work in several differ...
Speech Recognition and Transcription in Law and Legal
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been frustrated with how Alexa or Siri don't always understand your verbal requests? If so, then you already understand the problem that...
Speech Recognition and Transcription in Law and Legal
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been frustrated with how Alexa or Siri don't always understand your verbal requests? If so, then you already understand the problem that...
Why Executives Should Keep Up with AI Trends in Business
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I hope that by the end of this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, you'll not only be able to hire better data scientists who will be a fit for you...
The Strengths of the AI Ecosystem in China - Perspectives from a UN Leader
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to understand the international competitive dynamics of artificial intelligence, particularly the US and China, starting with the United N...
AutoML and How AI Could Become More Accessible to Businesses
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how so-called autoML, or automated machine learning, could bring AI to more businesses by allowing users to build AI models faster and cheape...
AI for Enterprise Legal Departments - Contract Analysis and More
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
AI has numerous use cases in legal, from document search to compliance and contract abstraction. This week, we speak with Lars Mahler, Chief Science ...
Data Challenges in the Healthcare Industry
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of venture money pouring into artificial intelligence in healthcare. From pharma to hospitals and beyond, the potential applications in ...
Success Factors for AI Business Models - A Venture Capitalist's Perspective
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Saying that your company does artificial intelligence might still have a slightly cool ring to it if you're talking to one of your peers at a conferen...
What Makes a Successful AI Company? - A Venture Capitalist's Perspective
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If one wants to start a general search engine, they're going to have to compete with Google. If one wants to start a general eCommerce platform, they'...
Why It's Exceedingly Difficult to Build and Adopt AI in Business
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of AI in the press is CMOs or marketing people talking about what a company can do in a way that really is aspirational. They're speaking about ...
How to Build Data Science Teams for AI Projects
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interview a leader at Facebook. Jason Sundram is the lead of World.ai at Facebook, which is one of their efforts to work with public data...
How AI and Data Science Could Better Inform Public Policy Decisions
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the promises of artificial intelligence is aiding humans in making smarter decisions. Whether it's in pharma, retail, or eCommerce companies...
The State of Natural Language Processing in the Sales Process
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sales is a big part of any sort of B2B firm. We speak this week with Micha Breakstone, co-founder of Chorus.ai. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Sciences f...
AI for Contract Analysis in the Enterprise
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Close to a year ago, we had an interview here on the AI in Industry podcast with Jeremy Barnes of Element AI. We visited their headquarters in Montrea...
Computer Vision for Medical Diagnostics in the Chest Area
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: Recently, we were called upon by the World Bank to do a good deal of research on the potential of applying artificial intelligence to...
How AI Will Become More Accessible to Retailers
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence plays a role in the future of retail in terms of a deeper understanding of customers going beyond intuition. This week, we spe...
Machine Learning for Decision Support in Tax and Accounting
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of machine learning applications in business can be boiled down to some form of decision support. There are big decisions like deciding whether ...
An Overview of AI for Wealth Management - What's Possible Today?
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We spoke with Robert Golladay, General Manager, Europe at CognitiveScale, which offers AI software that helps both wealth advisors personalize insight...
Data Challenges in the Defense Sector
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're going to be talking about the defense sector. We interview Ryan Welch, CEO of Kyndi, a company working on explainable AI. We focus sp...
What It Looks Like to Be Ready for AI Adoption in the Enterprise
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we're talking about customer service, marketing, or building developer teams, what we try to do on our AI in Industry podcast is bring to bea...
How AI Can Help Retailers With Inventory Optimization
02 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: This week we talk to Alejandro Giacometti, the data science lead at a company called EDITED, based in London. The company claims to h...
When to Upgrade Your Hardware for Artificial Intelligence
25 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Some businesses are going to require a sea change in the way that their computation works and the kinds of computing power that they're leveraging to ...
Setting Up Retail Stores for Machine Learning - Cameras, Microphones, and More
18 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We speak this week with Aneesh Reddy, cofounder and CEO of Capillary Technologies. Capillary is a rather large firm based in Singapore. Aneesh is in B...
How to Use AI to Hire and Recruit Talent
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AI In Industry, we interview Nick Possley, the CTO of a company called AllyO, based in the San Francisco Bay area. We speak with Ni...
How to Get a Chatbot to do What One Wants in Business
04 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a chatbot or a conversational interface actually work? What kind of work does one need to do to get a chatbot to do what one wants it t...
Balancing Machines and Human Employees When Adopting AI in the Enterprise
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: In this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, we interview Rajat Mishra, VP of Customer Experience at Cisco, about the best practice...
How IT Services Firms Can Adapt to Artifical Intelligence
21 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, we interview Nikhil Malhotra, Creator and Head of Maker's Lab at Tech Mahindra, about how artificial i...
Predicting Sales Propensity with Artificial Intelligence - Opportunities and Challenges
14 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: Prominent technology companies like Google and Amazon lead the way in the B2C world, having access to streams of searches, clicks, an...
Bridging the Data Science Gap - Why Subject-Matter Experts Matter
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For business leaders who are thinking about integrating AI into their company or who are just in the very beginning of that journey, this may be a use...
How Machine Learning Could Help CPG Companies Beat Out Their Competitors
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of most fun parts about doing our geolocation pieces at TechEmergence is that we are able to interview so many people within a given country or ci...
AI for Enterprise Search - Challenges and Opportunities
07 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, we interview Grant Ingersoll at Lucidworks, about enterprise search. Ingersoll talks about how compan...
How to Determine the Data Needs of an AI Project or Initiative
30 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We receive a lot of interest from business leaders in the domain of data enrichment, and we've executed on a few campaigns for these businesses. At th...
Data Collection and Enhancement Strategies for AI Initiatives in Business
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There's more to successful AI adoption than picking the right technology. Business leaders should be aware of the technical requirements of the initia...
The State of AI for Sales Enablement, and the Evolution of the CRM
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year, we've covered a lot of marketing applications. Many people know of our deep marketing research we've done on the landscape of mach...
AI for Retail and eCommerce in India - Challenges and Opportunities
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, we interview Sumit Borar, Senior Director of Data Sciences and Engineering at Myntra, an eCommerce site...
The Future of Drug Discovery and AI - The Role of Man and Machine
09 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AI in Industry, we speak with Amir Saffari, Senior Vice President of AI at BenevolentAI, a London-based pharmaceutical company that uses ...
AI for Government and NGO Social Good Initiatives - an Interview with the Wadhwani Institute
02 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We usually discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on a business's bottom line, but governments and NGOs are also considering AI as a mechanism ...
Machine Learning for Video Search and Video Education - How it Works
26 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
AI has made it easier to understand text as a medium in a deeper, more efficient way and at scale. With video, the situation is quite different. Searc...
AI in Industry: How AI Ethics Impacts the Bottom Line - An Overview of Practical Concerns
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AI in Industry, we are talking about the ethical consequences of AI in business. If a system were to train itself to act in unethical or ...
How Recommendation Engines Actually Work - Strategies and Principles
19 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of recommendation engines, we might think of Amazon or Netflix, but while consumer goods and entertainment might be the most prominent d...
What Executives Should be Asking about AI Use-Cases in Business
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When contemplating a new venture into AI or machine learning, companies need to take on a number of important considerations that relate to talent, ex...
NLP for Text Summarization and Team Communication
12 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: In this episode of the podcast, we interview AIG's Chief Data Science Officer, Dr. Nishant Chandra, about natural language processing...
How to Determine the Best Artificial Intelligence Application Areas in Your Business
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode of the AI in Industry podcast focuses on two main questions. First, how should business leaders determine the most fruitful, poten...
The Financial ROI of AI Hardware - Top-Line and Bottom-Line Impact
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At TechEmergence, we often talk about the software capabilities of AI and the tangible return on investment (ROI) of recommendation engines, fraud det...
The Future of Advertising and Machine Learning - Audience Targeting, Reach, and More
29 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: Facebook and Google's advertising complex is founded on machine learning, allowing people to self-serve their data needs across a br...
How Existing Businesses Should Organize Their Data Assets for AI
22 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Companies with wells of data at their disposal may find themselves asking how they can use them in meaningful ways. Generally speaking, a clean set of...
White Collar Automation in Healthcare - What's Possible Today?
15 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this episode of Ai in industry, we speak with Manoj Saxena, the Executive Chairman of CognitiveScale, about how AI and automation ...
Using NLP for Customer Feedback in Automotive, Banking, and More
08 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: Natural language processing (NLP) has become popular in the past two years as more businesses processes implement this technology in ...
Can Businesses Use "Emotional" Artificial Intelligence?
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: This week on AI in Industry, we speak to Rana el Kaliouby, Co-founder and CEO of Affectiva about how machine vision can be applied to...
Improving Customer Experience with AI, Gaining Quantifiable Insight at Scale
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A myriad of customer service channels exist today, such as social media, email, chat services, call centers, and voice mail. There are so many ways th...
Better Than Elasticsearch? How Machine Learning is Improving Online Search
24 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Khalifeh Al Jadda, Lead Data Scientist at CareerBuilder, about the applications of m...
AI Use-Cases for the Future of Real Estate
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Andy Terrel, the Chief Data Scientist at REX - Real Estate Exchange Inc., about how ...
High Performance Computing in Artificial Intelligence Applications with Paul Martino from Bullpen Capital
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: Here on the AI in Industry podcast, we've heard AI experts explain how high-performance computing (HPC) has enabled everything from ...
Machine Learning for Credit Risk - What's Changing, and What Does it Mean?
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Dr. Sanmay Das from the Washington University in St. Louis about risk prediction and...
Applications of Machine Vision in Heavy Industry
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In the last two or three years we at TechEmergence have witnessed a definite uptick in AI applications like predictive maintenance an...
Artificial Intelligence for Personalization in Marketing - Current and Future Possibilities
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this episode of AI in Industry we speak with Abhi Yadav, the CEO of ZyloTech, a Boston-based customer analytics platform for omn...
Will Artificial Intelligence Become Easier to Use?
06 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this week's episode of AI in Industry we speak with DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin about the future of AI applications for people with...
How to Apply AI to an Existing Business with Larry Lafferty
29 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this week's episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Larry Lafferty, the President and CEO of Veloxiti. Larry has been building la...
Will McGinnis (Predikto) - Predictive Maintenance for Trains and Mobile Heavy Industry
21 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In the heavy industry sector, the cost of unpredicted repairs or machine failures can be very expensive. For example: A cargo train w...
Improving Robot Safety and Capability with Artificial Intelligence - with Rodney Brooks
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this week's episode of AI in Industry we speak with Rodney Brooks, Founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics, a collaborative robot manu...
What's the Value of AI Events and Consulting?
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: One of the key challenges that enterprises face in adopting artificial intelligence is finding skilled data science talent; ). Busine...
Spoken Voice AI Applications in the Smart Home - with Peter Cahill from Voysis
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: Over the last couple of years there has been a definite but small shift from mobile as the primary interface focus for businesses to ...
What Industries Will Adopt Voice-Related AI Applications First?
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we focus on AI application in the customer service business function, - specifically in the context of call centers. We speak w...
Reducing the Friction of AI Adoption in the Enterprise - with Rudina Seseri
25 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: There are many challenges to bringing AI into an enterprise for example the lack of skilled AI talent, or issues around data organiza...
NLP for eCommerce Search - Current Challenges and Future Potential
18 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: In this week's interview on the AI in Industry podcast, we speak with Amir Konigsberg, the CEO of Twiggle, about the future of produc...
Robbie Allen from Automated Insights - The Use-Cases of Natural Language Generation
11 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary: Machine learning (ML) can be used to identify objects and pictures or help steer vehicles, but is not best suited for text-based AI a...
Applying AI to Legal Contracts - What's Possible Now
03 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: This week's episode explores the current possibilities in applying natural language processing for legal contract review. We speak wi...
Artificial Intelligence for Team Communication
24 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary: Most NLP applications we hear about involve marketing, customer service, and other customer-facing functions - but that there are NLP...
Artificial Intelligence for Content Marketing and Content Creation
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about natural language processing (NLP), applications like handling customer service or chatbots which can aid with questions, come to mi...
Overcoming Challenges in Spoken Voice based Natural Language Processing (NLP) for business use
10 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AI in industry, we speak with Michael Johnson, the director of research and innovation for Interactions llc, in Boston MA. Michael ...
Natural Language Processing - Current Applications and Future Possibilities
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In order to shed more light on the growing applications of natural language processing, we speak with Vlad Sejnoha (CTO of Nuance Communications) abou...
How Microtasking Helps Optimize AI-Based Search - in Media, eCommerce and More
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AI in Industry we interview Vito Vishnepolsky of Clickworker. Clickworker is a large microtasking marketplace that crowdsources the sear...
AI for Sales Forecasting - How it Works and Where it Matters
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sales forecasting is big business. If you can better predict how much of a certain product or service you will sell in a given day, you can better sto...
Overcoming the Data and Talent Challenges of AI in Life Sciences
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AI in industry, Innoplexus CEO Gunjan Bhardwaj explores how pharma giants are working to overcome two critical challenges with AI:...
Avoiding Common Mistakes in Applying AI to Business Problems - with Jeremy Barnes of Element AI
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, AI in Industry features Jeremy Barnes, Chief Architect at Element AI. Jeremy talks about the common mistakes some businesses might make whi...
AI Recommendation Engines for Big Purchases - Will You Buy Your Home or Car Using AI?
14 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, AI in Industry features Dr. David Franke, Chief Scientist at Vast. David talks about how AI can work with scarce transaction data to derive...
The Future of Medical Machine Vision - Possibilities for Diagnostics and More
07 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode covers the medical applications of machine vision for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Medical science has integrated AI sin...
Building and Retaining a Data Science Team
30 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AI in Industry, we speak with Equifax's Dr. Rajkumar Bondugula about how the dynamics, composition and requirements of the data science t...
AI for IoT Security - with Dr. Bob Baxley of Bastille
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AI in Industry, we explore IoT security with Bob Baxley (Chief Engineer at Bastille). This includes information on how different IoT secu...
AI for Social Influence and Behavior Manipulation with Dr. Charles Isbell
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AI in Industry, we explore how artificial intelligence can be use to manipulate human behavior - in gaming and in business. We expl...
Ben Goertzel on How Blockchain Might Make AI More Accessible
09 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you combine the hype-factor of both "blockchain" and "artificial intelligence" you often get a supernova of jargon. This week on the AI in Industry...
Machine Learning with Less Training Data - Approaches and Trends
03 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Expert systems and machine learning are two ends of a spectrum working to solve similar problems quite differently. One one hand you have if-then scen...
How Chatbots Work, and How They Evolve
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of hype out there about conversational AI. Although according to our guest, we're nowhere near the day when AI can generate accurate con...
Machine Vision for Advertising - Possibilities in Social and Online Media
19 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How can machine learning help us advertise through social media? In this episode, Thomas Jelonek, CEO of Envision.ai, talks to us about how in the nex...
Modeling Biology with Machine Learning - with Turbine.ai's CEO Kristóf Zsolt Szalay
12 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the ways in which artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the field of medicine. This week's guest, Dr. Krist...
What Chatbots Can Do, and Cannot Do
05 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, discover how chatbots and conversational agents can provide you an advantage in the realms of customer support, product, support, lea...
How Can Businesses Get NLP to Work?
29 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AI in Industry, we speak to Paul Barba (Chief Scientist at Lexalytics) about what how companies are using natural language processing, an...
AI for Theft Prevention and Process Adherence - with Alan O'Herlihy from Everseen
22 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Alan O'Herlihy, Founder and CEO of Ireland-based Everseen. Alan speaks to us about how machine vision systems can be us...
Qrativ's Murali Aravamudan on "What's Possible" for AI in Drug Discovery
14 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Murali Aravamudan, Founder and CEO of AI-driven drug discovery startup Qrativ, a joint venture by the Mayo Clinic and biot...
AI in Healthcare IT Security - Why Hospitals are Targets
08 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Daniel Nigrin, MD, Senior Vice President and CIO at Boston Children's Hospital. Daniel and I discuss why hackers have come...
NLP for Customer Service - How Does it Work?
01 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Natural language processing has gained more and more attention with the raise of (or rather, the "fad" of) chatbots. Despite the flurry of press relea...
Computer Vision for Body Language - How it Works and How it Could be Used
23 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As a human, we can often understand the mood, intention, and future action of another person just by looking at them. We see their posture, their faci...
AI for Cameras and Computer Vision - with Algolux's Allan Benchetrit
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the future, the vast majority of photos and videos recorded won't be seen and used by humans - they'll be seen and used by machines. This week we i...
Tamr's Eliot Knudsen on the Automation of Procurement
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Procurement isn't usually seen as a "sexy" aspect of a business's operations. Procurement personnel are responsible for sourcing suppliers or vendors,...
AI Use-Cases in the CRM - with Bastiaan Janmaat of DataFox
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak with Bastiaan Janmaat (CEO and co-Founder of DataFox) about the current and future applications of artificial intelligence in the ...
Surviving the Machine Age - Technological Job Loss with Kevin LaGrandeur
26 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is coming - should be worried about our jobs? Well, it depends. Our guest Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur spent the last two years resear...
Might AI Need Standards to Scale? - with Konstantinos Karachalios of the IEEE
19 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Though we don't think about it on a daily basis - the technologies around us often "work" because of an underlying standard that they depend on. These...
Predictive Maintenance for Equipment and Machinery - with Predii's Tilak Kasturi
13 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It would be great if instead of having our car break down - could have them fixed as soon as the underlying problem began. It would be great if inste...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Programmatic Advertising
06 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A huge percentage of digital advertising dollars today go to Google and Facebook, who dominate that sector - and are inevitably central for the future...