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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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When and How Will Autonomous Cars be Mainstream?
This week we speak with CEO and Founder of Nexar Inc., Eran Shir, whose company has created a dashboard app that allows drivers to mount a smartphone, which…
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How to Leverage Data Assets for Business - with Kenneth Cukier
In this episode, we speak with Senior Editor for the Economist in digital and data products and Co-author of "Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We…
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How Executives Can Learn Machine Learning
What are executives missing the boat on and what do they need to think about when it comes to AI and ML? This week, we speak with John Straw, who has had a…
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Artificial Intelligence in Stock Trading - Future Trends and Applications
In many ways, AI and finance are made for each other. Machine learning and other techniques make it easier to identify patterns that might otherwise not be…
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Three Scenarios for the Future of Work in an AI Economy
Market research and trends is important when discussing AI and business, but it's also worthwhile to contemplate the ethical and social implications further…
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The Future of Advertising Attribution with Machine Learning
A medium-size business with a $20M marketing budget can run into issues when aiming to track an attribute, what marketing dollars brought in customers, etc…
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Five Year Trends in Medical AI Applications
I remember reading an article in Scientific American years ago about a poster of a person looking in the direction people sitting in a school dining room, and…
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Cogitai's Mark Ring - Going Beyond Reinforcement Learning
Today's episode is about continual learning, a focus of Cogitai, a company dedicated to building AI's that interact and learn from the real world. Cogitai's…
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Applying Computational Linguistics to Streamline the Legal Landscape
There's not that many serial tech entrepreneurs in the legal space, but Gary Sangha is one of them. Sangha is CEO and founder of Lit IQ, which is applying…
The AI in Business PodcastOpenAI's Ilya Sutskever on Preparing for the Future of Intelligence
Some organizations are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to help the world with research, some to help companies with marketing, and some are intent on…
The AI in Business PodcastFuture Applications of Machine Vision - an Interview with Cortica's CEO
Right now, you can take a picture of a flower in your garden and post it on social media to see if anyone knows its proper name. Wouldn't it be nice, though…
The AI in Business PodcastWhat is a GPU, and How Are Companies Using Them Now?
This week's guest is Kimberly Powell, senior director of business development at NVIDIA. In an interview conducted at the 2016 AI Summit in San Francisco…
The AI in Business PodcastAccenture's CTO on: The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Accenture is a pretty large company in the tech space, providing services to many of the Fortune 500 and global equivalents. They recently conducted a study of…
The AI in Business PodcastCrowdsourcing a Machine Learning Hedge Fund
Crowdsourcing is a relatively common term in technical vernacular today. Even if you're not a self-identified "techie", you may very may well have leveraged…
The AI in Business PodcastWhen Will Chatbots Reach Human Level Sophistication?
What does the world look like when we can replicate human expertise in an assistant? Are we close to developing human-level chatbots that we can ask about law…
The AI in Business PodcastDeep Learning Applications for Enterprise with Skymind's Chris Nicholson
In one of our most recent consensus, we took a close look at future trends in artificial intelligence consumer applications, but it's also interesting to see…
The AI in Business PodcastShopify's Kit - The AI Personal Marketing Assistant
We've interviewed a number of guests on TechEmergence, but very few who have had a serious part of their career in selling automobiles. But Michael Perry did…
The AI in Business PodcastMartin Ford on the Rise of Workforce Automation
Martin Ford started off as a software entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, but became better known for his speaking and writing on robotics' and automation's…
The AI in Business PodcastScaling Virtual Assistant Services for Enterprise
As Senior Director and World Wide Head of the Cognitive Innovation Group at Nuance Communications, Mark Hanson works on bringing Nuance lab innovations to…
The AI in Business PodcastHuman Resource Management Meets Predictive Analytics
How do you know if you've made the right decision for a hire? Often, employers go off gut instinct and make a decision retrospectively, but it turns out AI…
The AI in Business PodcastZillow: Data-Driven Real Estate Appraisals at Your Fingertips
Big data is often a buzzword, but if you're trying to quantify data around homes in the U.S. and pair that with hard to quantify information - like images -…
The AI in Business PodcastNetwork Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning
When Google's DeepMind won against one of the best modern Go champions, is used multiple AI approaches and exposed gaps in some individual strategies. This…
The AI in Business PodcastMuleSoft's CTO Envisions Connected Machine Learning Network
This episode's guest is Uri Sarid, CTO at Mulesoft. Sarid speaks about where he believes the future of machine learning (ML) applications in industry might go…
The AI in Business PodcastCould Swarm Intelligence Be Used to Teach AI?
It isn't by chance that birds fly in flocks and fish swim in schools - they're actually smarter when they act in a group. Could it be possible to extend that…
The AI in Business PodcastHow Companies Can Get Started Using Machine Learning for Business
Predictive analytics and machine learning are all the rage in Silicon Valley, but how do companies actually derive value by leveraging these technologies? We…
The AI in Business PodcastThe Business Value of Unstructured Data - with LoopAI Chief Scientist Patrick Ehlen
Our guest in this episode has spent a large part of his life on figuring out how to make machines more intelligent. LoopAI Chief Scientist Patrick Ehlen has…
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Pitching Angel Investors on Technologies They Don't Understand
This week's guest is Senior Vice President of SPARK, an economic development organization dedicated to getting startups and other early-stage companies off the…
The AI in Business PodcastWhy Big Data in Business Still Needs Human Intuition
For some companies, big data remains an abstraction; for others, it's an integral part of the lifeblood of a business. Mat Harris is vice president at Sojern…
The AI in Business PodcastInvesting in Artificial Intelligence - With Motus Ventures' Robert Seidl
Companies looking to raise money are often asking what investors think of their company, their industry, and how they're making investment decisions in related…
The AI in Business PodcastThe Future of Chatbots and Personal Assistants at Nuance's AI Lab
This week's interview was recorded live at Nuance's Silicon Valley office with guest Charlie Ortiz, director of the AI and Natural Language (NL) Processing Lab…
The AI in Business PodcastComet Labs' Saman Farid - An Investor's Take on the AI Landscape
Fifteen years ago, investing in AI may have seemed a bit far-fetched, but today it's not at all a rare occurrence; however, it's more rare to find entire firms…
The AI in Business PodcastDeepMind's Nando de Freitas - Why Deep Learning is Like Building with Legos
One of the most memorable moments from this interview is when our guest mentioned that Larry Page hired him to solve intelligence; very few people can say…
The AI in Business PodcastYour.MD's CEO on the Future of AI in Medicine
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Matteo Berlucchi, the founder of Your.MD, which uses artificial intelligence to create one of the first personal health…
The AI in Business PodcastSumo Logic CTO - How Machine Learning Shines Light on Business Blind Spots
CTO and Co-founder of Sumo Logic Christian Beedgen gives his take on how to glean return on investment from applying machine learning to companies. There are…
The AI in Business PodcastLucid VR's CTO Talks Machine Learning for Virtual Reality
Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are often seen as different trends, but there is a lot of overlap in these areas, where you might not…
The AI in Business PodcastHow Machine Learning Shapes Your eBay Experience
At Facebook headquarters, I learned there are 1 billion active users every month. In a more recent interview at eBay headquarters in San Jose, l learned that…
The AI in Business PodcastMachine Learning Cyber Security May Help Speed Response to Hack Attacks
In this week's episode, I speak with Igor Baikalov, Chief Scientist at cybersecurity company Securonix, about the trends in data security and where security…
The AI in Business PodcastFacebook Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Personalization
In this week's episode, we feature an in-person interview from Facebook's headquarters with Hussein Mehanna, director of engineering of the Core Machine…
The AI in Business PodcastWhat Can Machines Do That Lawyers Can't? A.I. Applications for Law
When one thinks through important industry apps of AI, law or legal apps are not usually the first to jump to mind, but there's certainly a need. Richard…
The AI in Business PodcastStart with a Problem: How Fast-Growing Startups Can Leverage Machine Learning
Learning about the research behind machine learning is always fun, but so is learning about the real-world applications. In today's episode, we're joined by…
The AI in Business PodcastTechnology Meta-trends and a Bird's Eye View of the Singularity
Today we have a guest who has interviewed more futurists than anyone else I know. While at TechEmergence a lot of our interviews focus on executives in AI…
The AI in Business PodcastHow Business Event Data and Predictive Analytics Help Deliver Better ROI
A lot of companies in the San Francisco Bay make the claim that they can do something great with data; many fewer are at a degree of scale to make this vision…
The AI in Business PodcastHow Natural Language Processing Helps Mattermark Find Business Opps
Natural language processing (NLP) sounds cool in theory. We're familiar with Siri and Echo of course, but where does it play a role in other companies? In…
The AI in Business PodcastA Close Up of Computer Vision with Shutterstock
We've spoken in the past about computer vision on the TechEmergence show, but we haven't covered much about it in industry apps. Few businesses have better…
The AI in Business PodcastSearching for Higher Ground in Rough Seas of Emerging Tech Governance
In addition to focusing on industry applications of artificial intelligence and emerging technology, we also focus on ethical and societal impacts of emerging…
The AI in Business PodcastPredictive 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…
The AI in Business PodcastFollow 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…
The AI in Business PodcastBuilding 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…
The AI in Business PodcastPulling 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…
The AI in Business PodcastMachine 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…
The AI in Business PodcastFrom 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…
The AI in Business PodcastNLP 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…
The AI in Business PodcastInsights 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…
The AI in Business PodcastHow 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…
The AI in Business PodcastMachine 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…
The AI in Business PodcastMachine 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…
The AI in Business PodcastHow 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…
The AI in Business PodcastIs 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…
The AI in Business PodcastWhy 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…
The AI in Business PodcastAdvocating 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…