What role do you see artificial intelligence playing in optimizing project management processes and decision-making within the realm of engineering projects?
Daniel FuentesSENIOR PROJECT MANAGER| INSIGHT GLOBAL AGENCYTulcan, C, Ecuador
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
AI is not trustable "as is". Because of that, when you create AI entities, you have to calculate the grade of confidence they will deliver in the outputs. Including it, the final decision is always in the human being. The key thing AI has been done from long time ago, between other things, is storage and simulate the human being process of analisys of hugh amount of data to create a result in shortest time than human being. Saving Changes...
Current GenAI tools are like an eager to please, but very junior assistant. They will take good as well as bad inputs and make inferences and predictions based on what they have been fed. As such, for the foreseeable future, the only responsible mantra is "Don't trust AND do verify".
AI has the ability to evaluate the probability of many possible outcomes to predict a "best fit" for processes and plans. I suspect that in the future, employee behavior will be increasingly monitored to develop more predictive statistics on individuals to among other things develop better optimization algorithms. Social media does that now, as do some employers in large tech firms.
There is no way a PM can validate that the algorithm actually found the best fit out of millions of possibilities. We can however use test cases to determine if the algorithms are providing expected results. We must also use our own best judgement to evaluate whether the output provided in the specific situation is rational. While we can't say what is the "best" solution, we should have confidence is it a good solution and where we think we could tweak the proposed solutions to improve them.br type="_moz" Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Daniel, AI is still in its inchancy and there are lots of ethical, privacy and security concerns besides reliability. I believe AI will play a pivotal role in optimizing project management proccesses but in terms of decision making, the results should always be verified and final decision should always be made by the PM. Even CHatGBT itself says that a PM should verify results! Saving Changes...
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