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 …
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In this episode of the AI Today we interview Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He discusses how AI is being implemented at JPL, and then more specifically about what NASA is doing and how AI is being applied in space, both on other planets and here at …
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss results from Cognilytica’s Voice Assistant Benchmark 2.0. In this benchmark, Cognilytica evaluates the intelligence and knowledge graph capabilities of four voice assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant (Home), Apple Siri, and Microsoft Cortana. We want to know — just how intelligent …
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Robots continue to be used in a variety of ways for useful and creative purposes. In this podcast, hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Adam Cantor and Erika Angle from Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE). They share how underwater robots are helping control the invasive lion fish population, some of the technical …
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jonathan Patrizio, Head of Technical Advisory and Alexa Evangelist at Mobiquity and Randy Sanborn, Principal Solutions Architect at Mobiquity. Both guests share how the market for voice assistants has evolved over the past five years, how organizations should approach conversational applications, and more. This podcast …
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For many years Amazon has been leading the way with using AI and machine learning in many parts of their business. In this podcast we interview three Vice Presidents to showcase various ways Amazon uses AI. Our guests include Roger Barga, General Manager, AWS Robotics, Srikanth Thirumalai, Vice President, Search, and Chuck Moore, Vice President, …
In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Dale Brown, VP, Business Development & Operations at Figure Eight live in person at the Amazon re:Mars event. For those of our listeners that were not able to attend this event was June 3-7, 2019. Dale shares with us what …
Arizona State University (ASU) is trying something very interesting: in addition to giving their incoming students the usual handbooks and orientation materials, they’re also giving some of them an Amazon Alexa device preloaded with ASU-specific skills. The results of this test are quite remarkable and might suggest that voice assistants could be the future of …
On July 31, 2018 Cognilytica released the latest iteration of the Cognilytica Voice Assistant Benchmark. Conversational interface-based devices are quickly taking off with devices and technology such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, and an increasing number of new entrants into the space. Cognilytica calls these devices “voice assistants”, rather than the …
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With the rise in popularity of AI has come the inevitable wave of those looking to take advantage of its popularity. Startups are beginning to realize that simply saying they have “AI” capabilities leads to increased valuations, greater attention, and more possibilities. But people are starting to get wise and it’s already starting to catch …
AI Today Podcast #48: Pseudo AI – Faking it Till You Make it in AI Read More »
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