AI-Driven Project Management

CHAPTER 1Introducing ChatGPT: The AI Revolution in Project Management

As you dive into this opening chapter, you will discover the essence of ChatGPT: what it is, how to access it, and why every modern project manager should grasp its potential and utilize it.

This chapter also acts as your roadmap to use PM-AI to achieve peak productivity and success. A 2019 report from KPMG revealed that organizations that invest in AI benefit from, on average, a 15 percent boost in productivity.

Evolution of AI

AI had its foundation in 1932 when Georges Artsrouni reportedly invented a machine that he referred to as a “mechanical brain” to translate between languages on a mechanical computer encoded with punch cards. He received the first patent for a mechanical translator. AI research began to take shape in 1943 when Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts published “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.”

In 1950, the AI revolution began with Alan Turing presenting his idea of “machines’ capability to imitate human reasoning and actions,” in his seminal paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Today, these machine learning technologies are changing our world. The Dartmouth Conference of 1956 was the birth of AI as an academic discipline. Most importantly, AI has led to the next level of machine learning (ML), characterized by neural networks with multiple layers, known as the “deep learning revolution.” Thinking of neural networks as a digital brain with neurons ...