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title: Codurance Talks Episode 23 - AI and the future of decision making | Codurance
description: In this episode of the Codurance Talks podcast, José E. Rodríguez Huerta chats to Riccardo Volpato, Data Scientist and Software Engineer at Satalia, a world-leading enterprise AI company.
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# [Codurance Talks Episode 23 - AI and the future of decision making | Codurance](https://www.codurance.com/publications/podcasts/2020-07-22-ai-and-decision-making)

 Written by [Natalie Gray, Director of Marketing & Growth](https://www.codurance.com/publications/author/natalie-gray) | 21 Jul 2020

 

 

In this episode of the Codurance Talks podcast, [José E. Rodríguez Huerta](https://www.codurance.com/publications/author/josé-e-rodríguez-huerta) chats to [Riccardo Volpato](https://volpato.io/), Data Scientist and Software Engineer at [Satalia](https://www.satalia.com/), a world-leading enterprise AI company.

The fascinating conversation covered both the academic and business applications of Machine Learning, AI and Data Science with Riccardo helping to demystify what can be a complex topic to understand, especially for those that are just starting out in their journey.

Areas discussed during this fun and entertaining conversation included:

- The history of AI and Machine Learning
- The challenges around implementing Machine Learning compared to other enterprise solutions
- Building integrity into data sets
- The challenges that unintended changes can bring to algorithm results eg. Covid-19
- Real-world practical applications of Machine Learning from ice cream sales to autonomous cars!
- Understanding abstractions
- Issues around ethics and bias in the algorithm
- Trends in Machine Learning, including Vision & Language, Forecasting & Modeling, Application within Science and Modeling Real World Phenomena
- Recommendations on how to get started

For more information on the topics discussed in the podcast, visit Riccardo’s blog at [https://volpato.io/](https://volpato.io/)

Other links of interest that Ricardo and Jose named in the podcast:

[Ricardo’s Twitter](https://twitter.com/ricvolpe)   
[Jose’s Twitter](https://twitter.com/jrhuerta)   
[Making neural nets uncool again](https://www.fast.ai/)   
[Education – Google AI](https://ai.google/education/)   
[Riccardo Volpato | The future of AI and Decision Making: Specification, Preferences and Interpretability](https://volpato.io/blog/2019/future-of-ai-and-decision-making/)   
[TensorFlow:](https://www.tensorflow.org/) An end-to-end open source machine learning platform for everyone. Discover TensorFlow's flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources.   
[OpenAI](https://openai.com/) is an AI development and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Codurance and Satalia partner to deliver world-leading cutting-edge data science and optimisation solutions to its clients.

Contact us at [hello@codurance.com](mailto:hello@codurance.com) to discuss your next project.

 Photo: [Prairie Dog](https://pixabay.com/en/prairie-dog-singing-musical-rodent-1470659/) by DigiPD is licensed under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)

Music: ["Sweeter Vermouth" by Kevin MacLeod](https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html) is licensed under [CC-BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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