Separating Science From Science Fiction in AI with Ron Keesing

“I’ve always been fascinated with AI - an early opportunity for me professionally was to work with NASA on a spacecraft mission called Deep Space, where we built the first software that could actually control a deep space mission. It was such an exciting experience - it ignited a lifelong passion in me for working with AI.”

Ron Keesing, Vice President and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Leidos is a huge advocate of AI and ML and today shares with us his passion for how we humans can best utilize this human like intelligence to solve our problems. 

But he’s quick to point out that whilst AI systems can exhibit varying degrees of intelligence, they should be thought of more as assisted intelligence, where systems are helping humans in a non invasive way to do things like Netflix movie recommendations, or auditing, or to search the entirety of the world wide web.

On today’s podcast:

• The limits to what artificial intelligence and machine learning can do
• The big AI ML opportunities on the horizon
• Robotic Process Automation
• Real life examples of exciting uses of AI and ML 
• Why there’s suddenly a leap forward in AI and ML
• Why AI and ML won’t suit every organization
• Big data is critical for AI and ML to solve the problem
• How to handle attacks on ML systems
• Why our existing fears about AI and ML taking over are unfounded
• How people can keep up with advances in AI and ML