The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes 1219 total
Predictive Analytics Offers Customized Solutions to Complex Problems
The artificial intelligence field is normally seen as burgeoning and new, populated with lots of small, scrappy companies aiming to become the next de-facto sol…
Follow the Data: Deep Learning Leads the Transformation of Enterprise
"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 received his P…
Building to Scale: How Yahoo! Turns Machine Learning into Company-Wide Systems
Many employers (and employees) are familiar with the 'painful' learning curves of using multiple software products or platforms at once, but these may not be gr…
Pulling Back the Curtain on Machine Learning Apps in Business
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 and 1990s…
Machine Learning Opening New Doors in Human Resource Industry
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 quantitative metr…
From Past to Future, Tracing the Evolutionary Path of FinTech
There are hedge funds and financial institutions that already use real-time data and sentiment analysis from social media, articles and videos in real-time to p…
NLP Systems Have a Lot to Learn from Humans
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 made larg…
Insights on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Data Science and Industry
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 supplying thos…
How Cognitive Computing Can Change the Nature of Business Operations
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 Silicon Valley a…
Machine Learning Still Getting Sea Legs in the World of Midsize Business
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 providing A…
Machine Learning Not a Crystal Ball, But It Brings Clarity to Investment Decisions
Tad Slaff is the founder of Inovance, the creator of TRAIDE - a strategy creation platform that use machine learning algorithms to help traders uncover patterns…
How Gaming Could Win Us More Adaptable Artificial Intelligence
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 fitting topi…
Is Embodied Intelligence a Necessity for Flexible, Adaptive Thinking?
What is intelligence? For some researchers, it may be quite possible to create an intelligent machine 'in a box', something without physical embodiment but with…
Why Big Data is Not Necessarily the Best Data for Business
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 machine learnin…
Advocating a More Sustainable Business Culture in an Automated World
How does automation influence society today? This is an open-ended question with likely endless answers that can be observed in many different areas of society…
How Will the World Be Different When Machines Can Finally Listen?
This week's in-person interview is with Dr. Adam Coates, who spent 12 years at Stanford studying artificial intelligence before accepting his current position o…
Closing Gaps in Natural Language Processing May Help Solve World's Tough Problems
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 progress in an…
The Rise of Neural Networks and Deep Learning in Our Everyday Lives
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 constant pres…
Fear Not, AI May Be Our New Best Creative Collaborators
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 entirety of…
Neural Nets Just One Strand in a Braided Approach to Building Strong AI
TechEmergence has had a number of past guests who have talked about neural networks and machine learning, but Dr. Pieter Mosterman speaks in-depth about the pen…