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The AI in Business Podcast
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 research staff and journalists interview top AI executives from Fortune 2000 firms and unicorn startups - uncovering trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption. Visit our advertising page to learn more about reaching our executive audience of Fortune 2000 AI adopters: https://emerj.com/advertise
Episodes
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How Microtasking Helps Optimize AI-Based Search - in Media, eCommerce and More
This week on AI in Industry we interview Vito Vishnepolsky of Clickworker. Clickworker is a large microtasking marketplace that crowdsources the search…
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AI for Sales Forecasting - How it Works and Where it Matters
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…
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Overcoming the Data and Talent Challenges of AI in Life Sciences
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…
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Avoiding Common Mistakes in Applying AI to Business Problems - with Jeremy Barnes of Element AI
This week, AI in Industry features Jeremy Barnes, Chief Architect at Element AI. Jeremy talks about the common mistakes some businesses might make while…
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AI Recommendation Engines for Big Purchases - Will You Buy Your Home or Car Using AI?
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…
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The Future of Medical Machine Vision - Possibilities for Diagnostics and More
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…
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Building and Retaining a Data Science Team
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…
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AI for IoT Security - with Dr. Bob Baxley of Bastille
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…
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AI for Social Influence and Behavior Manipulation with Dr. Charles Isbell
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…
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Ben Goertzel on How Blockchain Might Make AI More Accessible
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…
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Machine Learning with Less Training Data - Approaches and Trends
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…
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How Chatbots Work, and How They Evolve
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…
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Machine Vision for Advertising - Possibilities in Social and Online Media
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…
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Modeling Biology with Machine Learning - with Turbine.ai's CEO Kristóf Zsolt Szalay
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…
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What Chatbots Can Do, and Cannot Do
In this episode, discover how chatbots and conversational agents can provide you an advantage in the realms of customer support, product, support, lead…
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How Can Businesses Get NLP to Work?
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…
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AI for Theft Prevention and Process Adherence - with Alan O'Herlihy from Everseen
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…
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Qrativ's Murali Aravamudan on "What's Possible" for AI in Drug Discovery
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…
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AI in Healthcare IT Security - Why Hospitals are Targets
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…
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NLP for Customer Service - How Does it Work?
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…
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Computer Vision for Body Language - How it Works and How it Could be Used
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…
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AI for Cameras and Computer Vision - with Algolux's Allan Benchetrit
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…
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Tamr's Eliot Knudsen on the Automation of Procurement
Procurement isn't usually seen as a "sexy" aspect of a business's operations. Procurement personnel are responsible for sourcing suppliers or vendors…
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AI Use-Cases in the CRM - with Bastiaan Janmaat of DataFox
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…
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Surviving the Machine Age - Technological Job Loss with Kevin LaGrandeur
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…
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Might AI Need Standards to Scale? - with Konstantinos Karachalios of the IEEE
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…
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Predictive Maintenance for Equipment and Machinery - with Predii's Tilak Kasturi
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…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Programmatic Advertising
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…
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AI for Real-Time Personalization - with LiftIgniter's Adam Spector
The big tech giants, such as Amazon, Google and Netflix, tend to set the stage in a lot of different domains and set public expectations to raise the aggregate…
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Bringing AI into an Old, Large, Existing Business - with Muriel Serrurier Schepper of Rabobank
Imagine you work in a large organization with tens of thousands of employees across multiple countries, a business that's been around for over a hundred years…
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Where is AI Making it's Way into Hospitals? - with Sangeeta Chakraborty of AYASDI
If you work in healthcare, or in an established business that is looking to implement AI for the first time - then this won't be an interview you'll want to…
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Marshall Brain on Technological Unemployment and the Role of Man and Machine
Marshall Brain discusses how wetware (the human brain) is increasingly becoming a part of a bigger system which may in itself be managed by software systems…
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Obstacles to Progress in Machine Learning - for NLP, Autonomous Vehicles, and More
Machine learning currently faces a number of obstacles which prevent it from advancing as quickly as it might. How might these obstacles be overcome and what…
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Machine Learning for Fraud Detection - Modern Applications and Risks
Fraud attacks have become much more sophisticated. Account takeovers are happening more often. Many security attacks involve multiple methods and unexpected…
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The Future of AI in Heavy Industry
Unlike the field of self-driving cars, the fields of construction, mining, agriculture, and other classes of "heavy industry" involve a huge variety of…
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Rebellion Research's Alexander Fleiss - How AI is Eating Finance
Although machine learning in finance is far from new, it is merely at the cusp of a much wider set of applications (in all segments of finance, from insurance…
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Healthcare Data - with Remedy Health
Guests Will Jack and Nikhil Buduma co-founders of Remedy Health Inc discuss the challenges involved in collecting, setting up and structuring data in order to…
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How Innovative Healthcare Companies Use AI to Put Patients First
If there's any industry ripe for disruption by AI and ML applications, it's healthcare. This week, we speak with ElevenTwo Capital's Founder and Managing…
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Prescriptive Analytics Driving the Smart Enterprise with Ann Miura-Ko
In the last few months, we've had a string of fantastic interviews with investors and have gained a cross-industry picture of what's important for start-ups…
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Gary Swart on Defensibility and Scale for AI Companies
Getting an investor's perspective in AI is always a good idea for companies looking to raise money, in terms of understanding of excites VC's, but even more…
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Deep Learning on Front Line Against New Malware Attacks
The upsurge of malware and sophisticated attacks continue to keep cybersecurity in the spotlight, but new developments in AI and deep learning offer more…
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Scopely and the Uses of AI and Analytics in Gaming
One of the most clear insights from our recent consensus in marketing and advertising was that companies who have more digital touch points along the path to…
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What Does it Take to Improve Marketing Results with AI?
In this episode, we speak with Co-founder and CEO Alex Holub of Vidora, about how AI can be put to work to improve marketing results. Holub touches on the…
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AI Healthcare Applications – and Why Doctors Don't Want to Be Replaced
I'm always a little shocked when I see how much venture investing goes into the healthcare space, which brings me to the subject of this week's episode: just…
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Data-Driven Software and the Future of Enterprise Tech
At TechEmergence, we like to look around the corner at where AI is impacting industries and how people can make better business decisions based on that…
The AI in Business PodcastA VC's Take On Business Process Automations
In some ways, investors in AI have to do a lot of what we do at TechEmergence, which is sort through marketing fluff and determine what's actually working and…
The AI in Business PodcastGenetic Algorithms Evolve Simple Solutions Across Industries
As it turns out, survival of the fittest applies as much to algorithms as it does to amoebas, at least when we're talking about genetic algorithms. We recently…
The AI in Business PodcastArt of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing Optimization
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 business…
The AI in Business PodcastFundamentals of Natural Language Generation in Business Intelligence
You might be aware that some of the articles online about sports or financial performance of companies are article written by machines; this machine…
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DarkTrace's Justin Fier - Malicious AI and the Dark Side of Data Security
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 toward…
The AI in Business PodcastStartup Artificial Intelligence Companies in China
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 overseas…
The AI in Business PodcastHow Data Lakes Support ML in Industry - with Cloudera's Amr Awadallah
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 recent…
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Machine Learning for Media Monitoring - with Signal Chief Data Scientist
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 strategies or…
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Tuning Machine Learning Algorithms with Scott Clark
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 tuning…
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How to Raise Money for Your AI Startup – with Ben Narasin of Canvas Ventures
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 AI and ML…
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How to Learn Machine Learning – an Investor's Perspective
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 a business…
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Machine Learning in Infosecurity
Uday Veeramachaneni is taking a new approach to machine learning in infosecurity, AKA infosec. Traditionally, infosec has approached predicting attacks in two…
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How to Hire Machine Learning Talent - with HIRED's Parshu Kulkarni
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 Kulkarni…
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How Algorithms Improve Advertising - AI for Marketing Optimization
In marketing, there are lots of applications in AI and machine learning (ML), from recommendation engines to predictive analytics and beyond. At the company…
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Automating White Collar Work - Two Examples and a Look Forward
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 attempt to…