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The AI in Business Podcast

848 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 101 ratings

The AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI.

Each week, Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research CEO Daniel Faggella interviews top AI executives from Fortune 500 firms and unicorn startups - to uncover trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.

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Better Than Elasticsearch? How Machine Learning is Improving Online Search

June 24, 2018 08:48 - 26 minutes - 21.7 MB

Episode summary: In this episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Khalifeh Al Jadda, Lead Data Scientist at CareerBuilder, about the applications of machine learning in improving a user’s search experience. Khalifeh also talks about what the future of search might look like and how AI will continue to make the search experience more intuitive (for search engines, platforms, eCommerce stores, and more). Business leaders listening in will get a sneak peak into the future of online search -...

AI Use-Cases for the Future of Real Estate

June 15, 2018 12:14 - 27 minutes - 22.1 MB

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 AI is being used in the real estate sector today. Looking ahead ten years into the future, Andy paints a picture of the areas where he believes AI will change the real estate business. Andy explores how marketing in real estate might change in the future with chatbots and conversational interfaces in real estate which are high value per ticke...

AI Use-Cases for the Future of Real Estate

June 15, 2018 12:14 - 27 minutes - 22.1 MB

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 AI is being used in the real estate sector today. Looking ahead ten years into the future, Andy paints a picture of the areas where he believes AI will change the real estate business. Andy explores how marketing in real estate might change in the future with chatbots and conversational interfaces in real estate which are high value per ticke...

High Performance Computing in Artificial Intelligence Applications with Paul Martino from Bullpen Capital

June 11, 2018 14:40 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

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 vision to fraud detection. In this week’s episode, we speak with Paul Martino, Managing Partner at Bullpen Capital, about which industries and AI applications will require high-performance computing most. Paul also adds some useful tips for business leaders on how to prepare for the coming AI-related developments in hardware and soft...

Machine Learning for Credit Risk - What's Changing, and What Does it Mean?

June 03, 2018 09:30 - 27 minutes - 25 MB

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 management in industries like banking, insurance and finance. Sanmay explores how are banks and other financial institutions are improving risk and fraud prevention measures with machine learning. In addition, he explores the ramifications of improved fraud detection in the coming 5 years ahead. Interested readers can listen to the full i...

Applications of Machine Vision in Heavy Industry

May 18, 2018 13:49 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Episode summary: In the last two or three years we at TechEmergence have witnessed a definite uptick in AI applications like predictive maintenance and heavy industry. Many exciting business intelligence and sensor data applications are making their way into “stodgy” industries like transportation, oil and gas, and telecom - where machine vision has countless applications. We had caught up with Massimiliano Versace, CEO of Neurala over 4 years ago in an interview about the ethical impli...

Artificial Intelligence for Personalization in Marketing - Current and Future Possibilities

May 13, 2018 10:18 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

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 omni-channel marketing operations. Abhi talks about what's possible now with AI for marketing personalization, and what will be possible in the next 5 years. Business leaders with an increasing focus on narrower customer targeting will be interested in Abhi’s insights on how technology allows for businesses to reach an “audience of one”. Intere...

Will Artificial Intelligence Become Easier to Use?

May 06, 2018 11:33 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

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 without a data science background. We specifically discuss how future AI tools might bypass the complexity of machine learning programming and make intuitive interfaces that function more like today’s everyday software. Our business leader listeners will be interested in Jeremy’s predictions about how the UX for AI-related tools might become more s...

How to Apply AI to an Existing Business with Larry Lafferty

April 29, 2018 15:56 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MB

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 large AI projects for DARPA and other large private companies for the last 30 years. In this interview, Larry explains three critical factors to applying artificial intelligence in the enterprise (with insights especially relevant for companies who aren’t very familiar with AI and data science). AI vendors and business leaders should find the...

Will McGinnis (Predikto) - Predictive Maintenance for Trains and Mobile Heavy Industry

April 21, 2018 19:00 - 25 minutes - 20.3 MB

Episode summary: In the heavy industry sector, the cost of unpredicted repairs or machine failures can be very expensive. For example: A cargo train with an engine failure in will incur costs from it’s own repairs, from the transit required to reach the broken down engine, and with holding up other trains and cargo in the process. Predictive maintenance has the potential to help businesses assess the condition of vehicles, equipment and parts in order to predict when maintenance should be ...

Improving Robot Safety and Capability with Artificial Intelligence - with Rodney Brooks

April 18, 2018 13:44 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MB

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 manufacturers founded in Boston in 2008. Rodney explores robotic safety an regulations and he also paints a picture of what robots might be capable of in the next five years. Executives in the logistics and manufacturing sectors considering adopting robots will find Rodney’s insights most valuable.  Rodney explores what applications will move int...

What's the Value of AI Events and Consulting?

April 14, 2018 19:00 - 23 minutes - 18.8 MB

Episode summary: One of the key challenges that enterprises face in adopting artificial intelligence is finding skilled data science talent; ). Business leaders want to know when it's best to hire AI talent, to "upskill" existing workers, or simply to bring in AI consultants - and the answers aren't always obvious. In this episode of AI in Industry we speak with Nikolaos Vasiloglou from MLTrain about how AI consulting and AI training events can be used to upgrade an existing team’s skills....

Spoken Voice AI Applications in the Smart Home - with Peter Cahill from Voysis

April 09, 2018 07:15 - 29 minutes - 23.5 MB

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 voice. With home assistant devices like the Amazon Echo and the Google Home becoming more commonplace, we aim to focus on how voice based AI applications are being used by businesses today and what this adoption will look like in the future.   In this week’s episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Peter Cahill, the founder and CEO of Voysis,...

What Industries Will Adopt Voice-Related AI Applications First?

April 01, 2018 11:09 - 31 minutes - 25 MB

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 with Ali Azarbayejani, CTO of Cogito based in the Boston area, which works on coaching and providing feedback for call center agents in real time. We aim to focus on what our readers and business executives can do today with AI in the context of call center applications, and how they can go about seeing measurable impacts over a predetermined ...

Reducing the Friction of AI Adoption in the Enterprise - with Rudina Seseri

March 25, 2018 13:30 - 27 minutes - 22.3 MB

Episode summary: There are many challenges to bringing AI into an enterprise for example the lack of skilled AI talent, or issues around data organization. In this week's episode, we focus on AI adoption in the enterprise from an investor’s perspective. We expect that founders looking to sell B2B enterprise AI-products and people in enterprises who are looking for the right qualities in an AI firm which would ease integration, would find this episode relatable. We speak with Rudina Seseri ...

NLP for eCommerce Search - Current Challenges and Future Potential

March 18, 2018 10:46 - 26 minutes - 21.3 MB

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 product search - and how eCommerce and retail brands can use natural language processing (NLP) to improve their user experience. Amir explains some of the factors that make eCommerce product search challenging, and the artificial intelligence approaches that can improve it today and within the next five years. Interested readers can learn more ab...

Robbie Allen from Automated Insights - The Use-Cases of Natural Language Generation

March 11, 2018 09:14 - 31 minutes - 25 MB

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 applications says Robbie Allen, founder of Automated Insights. In this episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Robbie about what is possible in generating text with AI and why rules based processes are a big part of natural language generation (NLG). We also explore which industries are likely to adopt such NLG techniques and in what ways can...

Applying AI to Legal Contracts - What's Possible Now

March 03, 2018 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

Episode summary: This week’s episode explores the current possibilities in applying natural language processing for legal contract review. We speak with Andrew Antos and Nischal Nadhamuni from Klaritylaw, a Boston-based startup focused on using natural language processing (NLP) based information extraction, from non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), in a live setting. We delve into the current and future roles of AI and lawyers with respect to legal contracts. AI is currently being applied in ...

Artificial Intelligence for Team Communication

February 24, 2018 20:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB

Episode summary: Most NLP applications we hear about involve marketing, customer service, and other customer-facing functions - but that there are NLP-related opportunities in other back-end functions as well.   In this episode of AI in industry, we speak with Talla's Chief Data Scientist, Byron Galbraith, about how businesses can leverage chatbots or other NLP applications for improving document search for internal company communication. Byron explores what is currently possible using AI ...

Artificial Intelligence for Content Marketing and Content Creation

February 16, 2018 20:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB

When we talk about natural language processing (NLP), applications like handling customer service or chatbots which can aid with questions, come to mind. Yet, in recent years, NLP platforms have been increasingly used in content marketing and content production applications. In this episode of AI in industry, we talk to Tomás Ratia García-Oliveros, the co-founder and CEO founder of Frase.io, a Boston based startup which focuses on NLP problems around content marketing and content creation....

Overcoming Challenges in Spoken Voice based Natural Language Processing (NLP) for business use

February 10, 2018 20:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

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 explores the inbound (human to machine) and outbound (machine to human) applications of voice based natural language processing (NLP) and also talks about attaching a timeframe to how soon small and medium enterprises (SMEs) would have access to this technology in a financially sensible manner.  Although NLP is often associated with chat or t...

Natural Language Processing - Current Applications and Future Possibilities

February 03, 2018 16:16 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

In order to shed more light on the growing applications of natural language processing, we speak with Vlad Sejnoha (CTO of Nuance Communications) about the current and near-term applications of NLP for voice and text across industries. In this podcast interview, Vlad breaks down real-world NLP use-cases in industries like banking, healthcare, automotive, and customer service. For the full article of this episode, visit: TechEmergence.com/natural-language-processing-current-application...

How Microtasking Helps Optimize AI-Based Search - in Media, eCommerce and More

February 01, 2018 05:29 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB

This week on AI in Industry we interview Vito Vishnepolsky of Clickworker. Clickworker is a large microtasking marketplace that crowdsources the search optimization work for many of the world's leading search engines. So how does crowdsourced human work play a role in making sure eCommerce and media searches give users what they want? That's exactly what we explore this week. Vito’s perspective is valuable because he has a finger on the pulse of crowdsourced demand, handing business develo...

AI for Sales Forecasting - How it Works and Where it Matters

January 29, 2018 02:27 - 25 minutes - 20.9 MB

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 stock inventory, better staff your facilities, and ultimately keep more margin in your business's accounts. This week on AI in Industry we interview Dr. John-Paul B Clarke, professor at Georgia Tech and co-founder / Chief Scientist at Pace (previously called "Prix"). Dr. Clarke shares details about how sales predictions are done today, and what ...

Overcoming the Data and Talent Challenges of AI in Life Sciences

January 24, 2018 04:31 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB

In this episode of AI in industry, Innoplexus CEO Gunjan Bhardwaj explores how pharma giants are working to overcome two critical challenges with AI: Data, and talent. Pharmaceutical data is challenging because the same term (say "EGFR") might be referred to as a "protein", a "biomarker", or a "target". Gunjan explores how this kind of relevance and context for data - and how pharma companies may need to hire the talent issues involved with making life sciences and computer sciences teams ...

Avoiding Common Mistakes in Applying AI to Business Problems - with Jeremy Barnes of Element AI

January 21, 2018 08:00 - 23 minutes - 19.3 MB

This week, AI in Industry features Jeremy Barnes, Chief Architect at Element AI. Jeremy talks about the common mistakes some businesses might make while adopting AI to solve broad business problems. He also sheds light on the problem areas that could raise the market value of businesses through AI adoption, hiring the right talent with the right combination of subject matter expertise and business experience, and the business and technical aspects executives should consider before contemplat...

AI Recommendation Engines for Big Purchases - Will You Buy Your Home or Car Using AI?

January 14, 2018 07:30 - 22 minutes - 17.8 MB

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 meaningful analytics for big purchases, such as cars and houses. He elaborates on how the AI can glean information from user interaction and marketplace data to provide customers with the relevant product fit, deals and recommendations on big purchases. He also discusses the future trends and business benefits for early adopters of AI for purc...

The Future of Medical Machine Vision - Possibilities for Diagnostics and More

January 07, 2018 01:13 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MB

This week’s episode covers the medical applications of machine vision for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Medical science has integrated AI since the late 90s, and it’s been useful in the fight against cancer. This week’s guest is Dr. Alexandre Le Bouthillier, founder of Imagia. Imagia is a medical imaging company which specializes in using AI and machine learning to detect cancer in its early stages so that oncologists can make quicker, more accurate diagnoses for patients. AI is a...

Building and Retaining a Data Science Team

December 30, 2017 22:43 - 28 minutes - 23.3 MB

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 team have evolved over the years. Raj also shares valuable insights on how to build a robust data science and machine learning team, use its collective intelligence to solve problems, and retain the team by engaging them with the right problems they expect to solve. For more insights from AI executives, visit: TechEmergence.com

AI for IoT Security - with Dr. Bob Baxley of Bastille

December 24, 2017 01:06 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MB

This week on AI in Industry, we explore IoT security with Bob Baxley (Chief Engineer at Bastille). This includes information on how different IoT security is compared to infosec, the unique challenges IoT security presents (for detecting and scanning wireless network traffic that runs on various protocols and for classifying types of cyberthreats), what the future of IoT security might look like, and how deep learning and machine learning tools can be used to better classify and detect threa...

AI for Social Influence and Behavior Manipulation with Dr. Charles Isbell

December 16, 2017 22:24 - 24 minutes - 19.8 MB

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 explore how game designers use psychology and machine learning to drive their own desired outcomes, leaving users to "feel" in control. Dr. Charles Isbell teaches machine learning at Georgia Tech. He explores the manipulative elements of game design, and how some of the same AI approaches are likely being used at tech giants like Amazon and Faceb...

Ben Goertzel on How Blockchain Might Make AI More Accessible

December 09, 2017 23:26 - 30 minutes - 24.9 MB

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 podcast, we aim to get beyond the hype to discuss how blockchain might make AI more accessible for small and mid-sized businesses in the years ahead. Dr. Ben Goertzel - CEO of SingularityNET - is our guest this week. For more expert interviews about the business applications of AI, visit: TechEmergence.com

Machine Learning with Less Training Data - Approaches and Trends

December 03, 2017 20:01 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MB

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 scenarios and a logical approach, and on the other you have vast neural networks and a big data approach. Some companies exist to try and bridge the gap between the if-then rule systems and the massive piles of data. They hope to find a middle ground of sorts, one that mitigates their individual disadvantages. One such company is Montreal’s fuzzy.a...

How Chatbots Work, and How They Evolve

November 27, 2017 03:49 - 26 minutes - 21.3 MB

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 conversations for the average business to integrate into their customer service, chatbots still have practical applications. In this episode, we interview the head of research at Digital Genius, Yoram Bachrach. Yoram succinctly outlines the current applications of chatbots—what they can and can’t do—and details how business can best prepare to aut...

Machine Vision for Advertising - Possibilities in Social and Online Media

November 19, 2017 08:58 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MB

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 next five years, machine learning might automate the laborious guess-and-check process of finding visual content with which users can engage. Right now, finding images and videos that will best generate engagement is a task reserved for a human. He or she shifts through images and video clips that may work for an audience based on anecdotal eviden...

Modeling Biology with Machine Learning - with Turbine.ai's CEO Kristóf Zsolt Szalay

November 12, 2017 02:17 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MB

This episode explores the ways in which artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the field of medicine. This week's guest, Dr. Kristóf Zsolt Szalay speaks to this topic, discussing research that hopes to create automated learning networks and algorithms designed to predict the development of human cells in response to drugs. This technological innovation would make it possible for near-instantaneous simulations to be run, allowing optimal combinations and optimal doses of d...

What Chatbots Can Do, and Cannot Do

November 05, 2017 22:13 - 22 minutes - 18 MB

In this episode, discover how chatbots and conversational agents can provide you an advantage in the realms of customer support, product, support, lead engagement, and more, and learn the theory behind creating useful chatbots you can use in your own business. Right now, if we intend to find a piece of information or purchase something on the Internet, we might use a search engine that provides us with a list of sites we can browse in order to find ourselves a resolution for that intent. Thi...

How Can Businesses Get NLP to Work?

October 29, 2017 22:19 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MB

This week on AI in Industry, we speak to Paul Barba (Chief Scientist at Lexalytics) about what how companies are using natural language processing, and what it takes (in terms of expertise, time, and training) to get these systems working. From sentiment analysis to categorization, Paul walks us through interesting and fruitful use-cases and sheds light on the back-end "tweaking" required to keep NLP productive in a changing business environment. For more interviews on the applications of ...

AI for Theft Prevention and Process Adherence - with Alan O'Herlihy from Everseen

October 22, 2017 05:00 - 20 minutes - 16.8 MB

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 used to detect theft or mistakes at a checkout counter (including forgetting to scan items, customers intentionally hiding items, and more). Alan not only explains where these technologies are in use today, but he also breaks down some of his own predictions about what these computer vision systems might make possible in the workplace of tomorrow...

Qrativ's Murali Aravamudan on "What's Possible" for AI in Drug Discovery

October 14, 2017 01:44 - 26 minutes - 21.5 MB

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 biotech/data science firm reference. Murali and I discuss the surge of medical information and data in the medical industry, the role of artificial intelligence in developing drugs for treatments to various diseases, and the future of AI in drug discovery. For more in-depth interviews on the business applications of artificial intelligence, find ...

AI in Healthcare IT Security - Why Hospitals are Targets

October 08, 2017 00:00 - 21 minutes - 17.5 MB

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 to prey on the healthcare industry, how these hackers benefit from their illicit activities, and what healthcare IT security precautions can be taken to prevent such attacks. For more interviews on AI applications in business, visit: www.TechEmergence.com

NLP for Customer Service - How Does it Work?

October 01, 2017 21:42 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MB

Natural language processing has gained more and more attention with the raise of (or rather, the "fad" of) chatbots. Despite the flurry of press releases from companies about their conversational agents (only a few of which seem to be delivering real business value), few business leaders understand the value of NLP for customer service, sales enablement, or eCommerce. In this week's episode of AI in Industry we interview Narjes Boufaden, computational linguistics PhD and CEO of Keatext, an...

Computer Vision for Body Language - How it Works and How it Could be Used

September 23, 2017 21:37 - 26 minutes - 21 MB

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 facial expression, where their eyes are focused, and we can get a decent understanding of what they might do next. The problem of computer vision for body language is a much harder problem to solve, but we are indeed making progress. Our guest this week is Paul Kruszewski, an computer science PhD who's spent nearly the last 20 years focused on 3D...

AI for Cameras and Computer Vision - with Algolux's Allan Benchetrit

September 17, 2017 02:55 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MB

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 interview Allan Benchetrit, CEO at Algolux - a Montreal-based AI company focusing on computational imaging. If you take an image for a human being in a consumer application (maybe an iPhone app or a recreational DSLR camera), you probably want it to be visually appealing and clear to the human eye. As it turns out, machines don't need pretty...

Tamr's Eliot Knudsen on the Automation of Procurement

September 09, 2017 23:23 - 24 minutes - 20 MB

Procurement isn't usually seen as a "sexy" aspect of a business's operations. Procurement personnel are responsible for sourcing suppliers or vendors, determining criterion of success, negotiating deal terms, and tracking results and deliverables - all of which could be considered "under appreciated" work. This week, Tamr's Eliot Knudsen walks us through the ways that AI is making it's way into the procurement process, and what it means for the future of this job function. For more executi...

AI Use-Cases in the CRM - with Bastiaan Janmaat of DataFox

September 02, 2017 20:54 - 26 minutes - 21.7 MB

This week we speak with Bastiaan Janmaat (CEO and co-Founder of DataFox) about the current and future applications of artificial intelligence in the CRM. No matter what business you're in, there's a high likelihood that managing relationships with customers, wholesalers, suppliers, or affiliates is important to your daily operations. Artificial intelligence is currently being employed to help with automating data entry, automating email and phone reminders, and even prompting salespeople w...

Surviving the Machine Age - Technological Job Loss with Kevin LaGrandeur

August 26, 2017 08:15 - 25 minutes - 20.4 MB

Artificial intelligence is coming - should be worried about our jobs? Well, it depends. Our guest Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur spent the last two years researching the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on society and the job market. In this interview on AI in Industry, we explore the near future of AI's impact on the world of work, and I ask Kevin some important questions, including: What skills are least "automate-able" in the next decade? What middle class professions have the g...

Might AI Need Standards to Scale? - with Konstantinos Karachalios of the IEEE

August 19, 2017 21:19 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MB

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 technologies include: Wifi, ethernet, fax, and much of the internet itself. Do certain AI applications need their own set of standards in order to scale? Imagine if you needed a new type of cable or input every time you wanted to jack your computer into the wall? Imagine if you needed different hardware to pick up wifi in every location you ...

Predictive Maintenance for Equipment and Machinery - with Predii's Tilak Kasturi

August 13, 2017 02:13 - 27 minutes - 22.3 MB

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 instead of having to diagnose a malfunctioning piece of mechanical equipment - would could have the right "fix" presented to us immediately. As it turns out, artificial intelligence may be working its way to accomplish both of those goals in the not-so-distance future. This week we interview Tilak Katsuri, CEO of Predii, a predictive maintenance AI...

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Programmatic Advertising

August 06, 2017 05:33 - 37 minutes - 30.1 MB

A huge percentage of digital advertising dollars today go to Google and Facebook, who dominate that sector - and are inevitably central for the future of programmatic advertising. There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that the growth in digital advertising in the last two to three years has gone almost entirely into their coffers. At least for the foreseeable future, Facebook and Google will retain the ability to dominate that space. The ability to be able to bid for the attention of partic...

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