What was your first real-life AI project ?
Hello World,
Its been a while since I published, time can fly when having fun. Hope everyone is safe and well. In these pandemic times, many of us have picked up hobbies, interests, mindfulness, skills etc.
I continue to do a few of the above, and then in later half of the year having more time in evenings with our children in college and me not traveling - I went "back to school" a bit to learn more about Artificial Intelligence for Leaders and enrolled myself in this program at UT-Austin.
The key focus of the course is to be able to uncover Business Value using Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning techniques are naturally a bit part of it.
What also motivated me to some degree was the awareness that complex Enterprise Architecture(s) often have many AI platforms in the mix, besides our ServiceNow platform which has all the leading AI features included. However, the end-to-end view and business goals are often not realized in a fragmented approach when many are in the mix. So I decided to invest some time and money to go a bit deeper.
In hindsight, the timing is rather good too, given how ServiceNow is investing and now we have some of the world's top AI experts with the acquisition of Element AI
A rather "ah-ha" moment for me was to realize that AI is not just an optimization function for the bottom-line but drives top line revenue as well. It is all around us, and the course just opened my eyes better.
In late-Dec, I will share and unpack my learnings more as the course completes, but in the interim I was curious about your experiences. In particular I would love to know the following:
- What was your first AI Project ?
- What platform/programming language did you use ?
- What business problem(s) did you solve ?
I will share mine as an update to this very soon !!