The Pulse of AI
Real conversations with the founders, CEO's, AI pioneers and experts who are building the future of AI today.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 132
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Creativity and Open Endedness in AI
On this podcast I am joined by Kenneth Stanley, currently of OpenAI, and Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, to talk about creativity, novelty search, Evolutionary AI, open endedness an…
AutoML and the Future of AI
On this podcast I am joined by Quoc Le and Risto Miikkulainen to talk about AutoML and the future direction of AI. Risto is an associate VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant and also a professor at the…
Demystifying AI
On this podcast I am joined by Dr. Jordan Pollack and Babak Hodjat to talk about the Demystification of AI. It is hard to find two people who add more value to this conversation than these two guests…
Trustworthiness in AI: Featuring Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen
World renowned AI thought leader’s Joydeep Ghosh and Risto Miikkulainen join me on this podcast in a wide ranging discussion centered around the issue of Trustworthiness in AI. As our businesses and …
People Have Asked “Where is AI in the Fight against Covid”? Cognizant has an Answer.
Ever since the Covid pandemic spread across the globe many have asked the question “where is AI in this fight”? And it is a valid question because many of the techniques used in AI require large amou…
Deep Dive into the Best Practices of a Data and AI Centered Enterprise
This podcast will help you successfully complete your journey to AI and data transformation. I am joined by Saket Malhotra of Takeda and Bret Greenstein of Cognizant to talk about the importance of d…
Successful AI Journey’s Depend on Best Practices
Join me on this podcast as I speak with Bret Greenstein of Cognizant and Inder Kochar of Novartis Oncology about the challenges, opportunities and best practices around centering an enterprise around…
AI is Changing Healthcare and Pharma Fast
In this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his collegue Naveen Sharma who is Head of AI and Analytics for Life Sciences about the exciting and profound changes…
The Covid Crisis is Forcing Banks to Embrace a Digital Future
On this podcast I speak with Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and his associate Maria Nazareth who is Head of AI and Analytics for the Banking and Financial Services Industry. Covid …
Cognizant’s Covid Response? Rapid Internal Transformation.
Some companies are dealing with the disruption caused by the Covid crisis better than others. Cognizant virtually overnight changed the entire way their almost 300k global workforce operated. It is a…
Digital Transformation with AI: The Time is Now or Never!
Join me as I speak with AI thought leader Dr. Michael Zeller about how companies should be focused on quickly accelerating their AI efforts in light of the crisis caused by the Covid pandemic. Busine…
AI Powered Robot Homes Would Reduce Covid Deaths in Nursing Homes
Join me as I talk to Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, founder and CEO of Casper.ai, to learn how their technology, using AI and IoT, power robot homes and how when implemented in nursing homes and assisted livin…
Digital Transformation: Covid-19 Changes Everything
Join me in this engaging and insightful conversation with Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff professor of Business Administration and co-director of the Labratory for Information Science at Harvard and of …
Unleashing the Power of Data and AI in the Enterprise
Over the coming weeks and months, in partnership with Cognizant, we have an exciting line-up of AI thought leaders drawn from academia, business, and the technical sides of Applied AI as well as inte…
Venture Capital is the fuel that helps entrepreneurs launch their rocket ships
On this podcast, I sit down with Shahin Farshchi of Lux Capital and we talk about his career journey, explore questions around the current and future state of AI, and dig down into just a few of Lux’…
Sourceress is changing how companies recruit through AI
The war for talent is real and companies are looking to gain a recruiting edge. By applying AI to the process allows you to build stronger relationships with target candidates which makes recruiting …
AICure is revolutionizing clinical trials for medicine
Clinical trials for new drug development are time consuming and expensive. It is hard to get participants to join drug trials, to participate fully and to stay in once they are in. This means that cl…
Help me find a parking spot AI!
One of the more frustrating things we face in modern cities is trying to find parking spaces. Sometimes it seems that half of our lives are spent circling around the block again and again hoping for …
A Conversation with Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist, of Untapt
In this wide ranging conversation with Jon Krohn, Chief Data Scientist, neuroscientist, author and more we talk about the way Untapt is leveraging deep learning to make the hiring process more effici…
A Conversation with AI Thought Leader Babak Hodjat
Babak Hodjat is a luminary in the world of AI and in this conversation we cover a number of topics but center much of our conversation around the increasing evidence of a disconnect among a significa…