Khaled HamdyProjects Advisor to the Director General| Roads and Transport AuthorityDubai, United Arab Emirates
Before I start discussing Artificial Intelligence in Project Management, I would like to discuss Artificial Intelligence in general. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Is it a science? Is it a new technology? Last but not least, is it MAGIC? It certainly seems that way when you look at some of the applications on your SMART phone. For Example, one week after I bought my phone, it knew where I live and where I work. In the morning of workdays, it started giving me notifications about the traffic conditions on my way to work. In the afternoon, it gives me a notification about the traffic conditions on my way home. How did MY PHONE know where I live and work and how did it know what days and times I went to work and left for home? It must have learned all that by itself. That is some kind of intelligence, isn’t it? So now, I come to the definition of Artificial Intelligence. The most convincing definition that I found is (by Patrick Henry Winston): “Artificial Intelligence is a machine’s ability to Perceive, Reason and Act”. There are many different types of Artificial Intelligence including machine learning, natural language processing, speech recognition, vision and image recognition, pattern recognition, expert systems, planning, optimization and last but not least robotics. In my opinion, Artificial Intelligence is a Science that uses the latest Technology to create MAGIC. There are many questions in my mind? The first one is “How can AI be used in PM?” Saving Changes...
Khaled HamdyProjects Advisor to the Director General| Roads and Transport AuthorityDubai, United Arab Emirates
Dear Maria Isabel:
all the possibilities that you mention in your post are viable and to some degree have already been explored as I will discuss tomorrow. Saving Changes...
Don KimPROJECT-TO-PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT EXPERT| Seeking opportunitiesSacramento, CA, United States
I've done work in AGI, but as a software developer and helped develop a "linguistic contextual parser". That was just over a decade ago and though I have been impressed with recent developments in AI and specifically with "deep machine learning" such as last March, when a Google owned company called "Deep Mind" utilized a deep learning algorithm to beat a grand master Go player, which was considered too heuristically complex to achieve for years to come (the game of GO, an ancient Chinese game that is similar to Chess, has 10^761 possible scenarios to Chess' 10^91!), I think it is over-hyped in the short run, and under-hyped in the long run.
Whatever the case may be, I think our society is too seduced by technology based solutions and instead of focusing on what machines can do, it might be better to spend time making humans more intelligent. There's too many stupid people that need desperate help with their AI (Analytic Intelligence), CSI (Common Sense Intelligence) and EI (Emotional Intelligence). I would think as a project manager, our jobs would be to help facilitate this among our team and stakeholders. God knows they need it!
Btw, I've written before that what we need to develop is "deep generalist", non-routine cognitive skills: https://goo.gl/au1FGh Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Jan 30, 2017 2:16 AM
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Dear Rami:
I will share some examples starting tomorrow. However, I would like to clarify the point about the ability of AI to deal with the fact that each project is unique.
How do we (humans) deal with the uniqueness of each new project? We draw on our experience with several previous projects that have some degree of similarity with the new "supposedly unique" project. We recognize patterns and similarities. That is what AI can do with varying degrees of accuracy. Actually that accuracy can improve with each new project it handles (machine learning).
I totally agree with this Khaled but can this be really applicable when it comes to a computerized application ?
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Jan 30, 2017 10:10 PM
Khaled Hamdy
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Dear Rami:
With advanced algorithms it is sometimes possible for some computer applications to display some levels of human-like cognitive abilities.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
I earned my master degree in AI in 1988. Unfortunatelly AI today is close to be a buzzword. We are surrounded by AI devices from lot of time ago. For example inside refrigerators that use fuzzy logic. I can write a lot about AI because I worked a lot with it. In fact, I have the pleasure to be part of one of the first hugh demostration about the use of IoT inside a simulation using the whole New York City. I think we need to go to the basement and avoid to add more to general confusion of AI. As one of my professors ever said (one of the fathers of AI): AI entities will replace Human entities the day when the AI entity will be sitting in the toillet and reading the newspaper at the same time. Today, I am making research on quatum computers that some day could help AI entities to do that. Thanks God (or any other force in the Universe you believe) we are too far. As always, the human factor prevails. Saving Changes...
Khaled HamdyProjects Advisor to the Director General| Roads and Transport AuthorityDubai, United Arab Emirates
Jan 30, 2017 12:47 PM
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I totally agree with this Khaled but can this be really applicable when it comes to a computerized application ?
Dear Rami:
With advanced algorithms it is sometimes possible for some computer applications to display some levels of human-like cognitive abilities. Saving Changes...
Khaled HamdyProjects Advisor to the Director General| Roads and Transport AuthorityDubai, United Arab Emirates
In response to Don Kim and Sergio Luis Conte, I would like to say that I believe in Artificial Intelligence augmenting human intelligence not replacing it. I also agree that General AI is very difficult to achieve. I don't want to say impossible because a lot of the things that we have today were thought to be impossible a few years ago.
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Jan 31, 2017 7:06 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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AI is not difficult to achieve. We are surrounded by AI devices and algoritm. I talked about refrigerators but the same in Google for example. My point is: we need to be serious (I am not saying that you are not). Lot of things are today buzzwords (agile, data analysis, IoT, AI, etc) and that jeopardizes the work of lot of people like me who are working inside the organizations using and implemented them. Fortunatelly, this type of discussion like this you started will help people to make some research and avoid the missunderstanding. I hope.
Jan 31, 2017 11:44 AM
Rami Kaibni
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I agree with this Khaled - This makes sense and it is indeed a very interesting subject.
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Khaled HamdyProjects Advisor to the Director General| Roads and Transport AuthorityDubai, United Arab Emirates
I recommend those interested to watch the DAVOS 2017 panel on AI. Link below
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Jan 30, 2017 10:28 PM
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In response to Don Kim and Sergio Luis Conte, I would like to say that I believe in Artificial Intelligence augmenting human intelligence not replacing it. I also agree that General AI is very difficult to achieve. I don't want to say impossible because a lot of the things that we have today were thought to be impossible a few years ago.
AI is not difficult to achieve. We are surrounded by AI devices and algoritm. I talked about refrigerators but the same in Google for example. My point is: we need to be serious (I am not saying that you are not). Lot of things are today buzzwords (agile, data analysis, IoT, AI, etc) and that jeopardizes the work of lot of people like me who are working inside the organizations using and implemented them. Fortunatelly, this type of discussion like this you started will help people to make some research and avoid the missunderstanding. I hope. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Jan 30, 2017 10:28 PM
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In response to Don Kim and Sergio Luis Conte, I would like to say that I believe in Artificial Intelligence augmenting human intelligence not replacing it. I also agree that General AI is very difficult to achieve. I don't want to say impossible because a lot of the things that we have today were thought to be impossible a few years ago.
I agree with this Khaled - This makes sense and it is indeed a very interesting subject. Saving Changes...
Khaled HamdyProjects Advisor to the Director General| Roads and Transport AuthorityDubai, United Arab Emirates
I will start posting some examples of the use of AI in PM Saving Changes...
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