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 AI Research CEO Daniel Faggella and team interview top AI executives from Fortune 2000 firms and unicorn startups - uncovering trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 1013
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
AT&T Predicts Future, Save Service with Machine Learning
We’ve featured a number of artificial intelligence researchers on the show, but today we switch gears and dive into the business side of the industry. In this episode, Dr. Mazin Gilbert (who earned h…
Snuggle up with Technology, But Don't Leave Empathy in the Cold
Are we losing something with technology? There are two sides to every argument, including this one. Dr. Sherry Turkle is of the belief that there’s enough mounting scientific evidence that points tow…
Putting the Horse Before the Cart May Lead the Way to Artificial General Intelligence
A lot of AI applications are not really “smart”, at least not in the sense of the word as most humans might envision a true artificial intelligence. If you know how Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov, for …
Brain Gains on the Road to Mapping a Personal Connectome
It goes without saying that the brain is difficult to understand, with the billions of neurons, fine individual synapses between each neuron, and the different regions responsible for the innumerable…
Deciphering the Discovery Engines that Decipher Our Digital Wants and Needs
Ever had the perfect book recommended to you by Amazon or gave a pleasantly-surprised thumbs up for a song selected for you by Pandora? Both services are powered by recommendation engines, which are …
When Many Intelligent Agents are Better than One
The beauty of a platform like eBay is that you can set a price that you’re willing to spend and let eBay do the bidding long after you’ve left the site. What if, in similar fashion, your washing mach…
A Global Call to Ban Autonomous Killer Robots for Good
Over the last decade, many first-world militaries have developed, and in some cases deployed, autonomous “killer” robots. Some proponents believe that such robots will save human lives, but another …
Seeing the World through Machine Eyes - with Dr. Irfan Essa
Most of us forget that just about a decade ago, Facebook’s software was incapable of tagging people in a photo, but today can so without difficulty, sometimes without us even knowing. Machine vision …
Navigating the Uncanny Valley with Character Robots
Have you ever seen a humanoid robot and felt creeped out? In this episode, we talk with Robotics Engineer Derek Scherer about the psychology of the uncanny valley and our relationships with robots. S…
Conscious Evolution of an Economic Social Contract
Most of society functions based on a general social contract i.e. we work to contribute to society and earn income to acquire goods. Those who can’t earn an income are required in some fashion to val…
Turning Up the Synaptic Noise to Create Machines that Dream
Neural network - it’s almost a buzz word, but it was looked down on during certain periods of AI development. Nonetheless, most of the public is not aware of what a neural network is, how it works, a…
Artificial Intelligence's Double-Edged Role in Cyber Security
Cyber security is closely linked to advances in artificial intelligence. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy about the cyber security factors and risks associated with AI. How is A…
Get into the Machine's Head to Better Understand Your Own
It's common knowledge that scientists study the brain to understand how to replicate intelligence in machines; it's less commonly known that scientists also use machine models to understand how the m…
The Spirit in the Machine May Not Be So Far Out
Over 100,00 years ago, it may have been advantageous for human beings to be hyper aware of other living things for the purposes of survival. In the future, between the IoT and advances in AI, we once…
Wanted: Emotionally Intelligent AI that Understands the Human Mind
Most of us can admire AI such as Siri, Watson, and other agents shaping the fabric of future AI-powered entities, but it's also possible to admire them as a “dead end”. Dr. Alexei V. Samsonovich is o…
A Wealthier, Healthier Society through Increased Automation?
Dr. James D. Miller, an Economics and AI researcher who received his doctorate from the University of Chicago, sheds light on how economics factors into our increasingly automated world, where develo…
Welcome to AI Kindergarten
Dr. Danko Nikolic, a scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, asks and works to answer questions about how our physical neuronal connections create the mind's perceptions. In the rea…
Calling Siri Names? You’re Not Alone
After receiving her PhD in Computer Science from the University of New York in 2002, Dr. Sheryl Brahnam's research interests steered her toward studying human abuse and misuse with computers, specifi…
Trending Now: The Evolution of Strong Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Joscha Bach is a software developer and researcher, who is currently developing a cognitive AI framework at MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. In this episode, he s…
Why We Must Hardware AI if We Want to Sustain the Human Race
Is it possible to make AI friendly to humans via software or will we have to hardwire consideration for humanity into an advanced AI? Louis Del Monte, best-selling author and expert in the field of A…