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My Journey with AI

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant strides since its inception, with advancements in large language models revolutionizing its accessibility, but AI has a long history. I can still remember the Jeopardy episodes between Watson and Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter ( video summary ). I worked at IBM at the time and after the tournament, I started seeing some new things coming out in AI. My first direct interaction came when I was asked to participate in an experiment in sentiment analysis. I provided access to my Twitter feed and was provided a report on the sentiment of my feed that was really pretty accurate.  The first real AI project I did was a bit of an experiment. I was very involved with the Project Management Institute (PMI) at the time and came up with an idea. I connected with a couple of people in the Watson group to try it out. The hypothesis I came up with was "Watson can be used to identify project risks in a statement of work." This was before the da...