Artificial Intelligence is Overrated—and Over-Sensationalized

George Freeman, PMP, is a seasoned IT project manager and leader who has worked in the software industry for nearly four decades, including over 25 years of project management. He has significant experience and expertise in enterprise information systems, data, and business architectures, and is an advocate for “business and technical architectural awareness” among all project team members. Mr. Freeman has international and remote team experience, and has a passion for meta-modeling, domain-driven design, and “all things architecture.”

  Artificial Intelligence  

Artificial intelligence and its projected or perceived impact on project managers have long been discussed and debated on this platform. Through some of those debates, I’ve noticed that my position and opinions are somewhat unique among project managers due to my architectural background.

Recently though, I have found myself mumbling at the TV as media outlets have started airing hyperbolic perspectives on AI—and in truth, my wife has been giving me that look. So, I put my thoughts down in article form to suppress those mumblings and to save my marriage.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a presumptive phrase muddled in marketing hyperbole, purposed to galvanize funding and sell products and services

Now, before you press the “article-abort” button, believing such an opening forewarns “conspiratorial content ahead,” rest assured this is not the case. My statement is purposed-driven and is the opening salvo in an ill-fated crusade to influence perspectives in the growing chorus (and audience) surrounding the “narratival instrument” we know as AI.

As a seasoned professional with over 40 years of experience in software engineering, I uniquely appreciate the current state of technology that drives this sector. However, my appreciation culminates with the hard-won abstracted frameworks and solution offerings—and then…

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