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AI Lifestyle ResourcesRichard Bixler Summary: Resources for adopting AI into your lifestyle. This article captures and organizes a collection of posts that outline how to use AI right now for current and future benefit. Beyond that, it includes posts that describe the structure of AI, and that describe how to learn and use more advanced functionalities over time. AI deployment is moving so fast, it's hard to even keep up! Beyond trying some prompts, what can we do to learn, and to benefit right now? Interesting posts disappear before we can read them. Posts that might extend our expertise appear before we can put them in context with what we've learned so far, and then disappear before we're ready for their wisdom. This article is a step toward organizing, gaining, using, and extending expertise in AI for current and future benefit, adopting AI functionality into everyday use. Published concurrently on svprojectmanagement. Resources: IntroductionAdopting AI into your lifestyle will expand - or explode! - what it meant to adopt the Web into your lifestyle. The breadth of Web adoption was not envisioned in any detail until killer-apps addressed existing daily needs of the public and of businesses. As that became prevalent, newly-imagined applications created new needs crossing all aspects of the whole population. How do we use the Web today... Online commerce, buyers and sellers. Social media, mobile smartphones, email, messaging. Dating. Online map navigation, self-driving vehicles. B2B business interactions. Conferencing. Information reference, education. Entertainment - streaming, gaming. Banking, Trading, Crypto currency. Healthcare, Government services, taxes, benefits. How did all that happen? Internet and Web spread like fire through corporate and personal use. Personal use, for home and mobile social connectivity, and consumer-to-business. Corporate use, as data centers led to server farms for massive computation and database supporting online, always-active, worldwide, business-to-consumer and business-to-business. Many thousands of continuous evolutionary steps from Wintel/Mac platforms, Ethernet, TCP-IP, HTML, Javascript and many more. These were facilitated by a magic conjunction of Means, Opportunity, and Motive. Means: Moore's Law for MIPS, cost, and interconnect bandwidth. Opportunity: Web protocols driving content-based killer apps with appeal to huge and expanding use among worldwide populace. Motivation: Monetization of the huge user base. AI is based on all the same means, opportunity and motivation as for the Web. AI explodes those capabilities with intelligent, interactive, dynamic content, both virtual and physical, based on underlying intelligence in technology implementation. We haven't seen the real killer apps yet but they're coming... Think of how you already use the Web. Adoption of AI into your lifestyle will mean that your first interactions on most things will be through AI: at first, directly through AI tools; later through ubiquitous applications and other means embedding AI. Expanding on all the capabilities of the web, beyond connection, and exploding dynamic intelligent content. Some of this will become self-teaching via intuitive interfaces and applications. That will take some time to emerge ubiquitously. Everyone will invest in development, but winners will emerge with greatest reach and depth. As that emerges, getting involved with AI now will give you advantages as the rest of the world moves more slowly than you. You could gain direct tactical advantage, but also ability to spot winners and losers early for continuous and longer-term advantage and leadership. No doubt there are many ways to get involved. One that I've noticed is the numerous contributions on LinkedIn. In this article I've taken some that I think will be useful, linked them and organized them by topic. So poke around, try some of the links, maybe take a course, many are free. Look here, or on the LinkedIn site where there's new stuff every day. See if there's something that interests you. Nothing helps you learn a topic like having a problem you want to solve! You must be logged-in to your LinkedIn Account, on the computer viewing this website, to be able to see the posts linked below.
Using AIWhere to access AI Chatbots? Most Chatbots have specific Apps, available in the App Stores for iPhone, Android and Windows. They also provide access via Web. You will need to establish an account for each.
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LLM - RAG - Agents Further Reading: Core Program Quantitative Structure for System ProgramsAdvice for Program Managers: The Blog Series1-Program Management Opportunity Introduces a vision and framework for development of Program Managers and PMO, for Program Management specialization to its environment, and for improved effectiveness and integration of PM with organization operational management. 2-Program Management Career Path Describes career path thinking for Program Managers including sourcing, progression, advancement, and connection with organizational management. 3-Program Management Career Skills Career path thinking for Program Managers including skills and behaviors that develop Program Manager capabilities and leadership and pave the way toward advancement. 4-Program Management Specialization: System Programs Phased Methodology PM Best Practices and Core Program Structure for Hybrid integrated system programs using Phased HW – Agile SW, mixed-technologies. Full-Program agility via automated plan tools with continuous plan update. The Series also solicits contributions to this Blog site, to extend coverage of PM Best Practices and Core Program Structure to a broadening set of Specializations. PMO behavior to achieve Program Management effectiveness specialized to its environment managing PM practices in the organization, including PM development and advancement and connection with organizational management. 6-Quantified Agile for Hardware Program Quantification applied to Phased and Agile methodologies to deal with organizational quantitative requirements. More Articles by this AuthorThree Levels of Program Management Guiding Principles for Program Management Action, Program Quantification, and Leverage Through Tooling. Organizing Program Communication Program Management depends on effective communication. Design Program communication paths for everyone throughout the Program. Database Platforms for Program Management Logistics Logistics Tool extended, using SQL Server and MS Access with MS Excel and PowerQuery. Logistics Tool using MS Excel Power Query. Tool methodology for agility with continuous plan update: Program BOM, Tie to Dates, Builds, Element data. Structure Program with Parallel Phasing. Describes coordination of EE/ME, FW, Test, Supply/CM, Driver/Kernel, Transport, Management. Scheduling, Integration points, scaffolding, and starting work. Hybrid Program Cross-Domain Coordination of development frameworks, including Phased and Agile/Scrum where appropriate, via integration points and scaffolding. Software Integration Sequence and Dependency Planning. Problem Statement. PM responsibility for Program Management drive throughout an organization, also includes schedule, budget, integration, critical path, logistics. Planning work structure for a Program, and using the plan effectively. AI effects on current and future lifestyles. Personal strategies for proactive and defensive use of AI. Using Iterative Thinking to solve big problems and complex logistics. AI resources to help adopt AI into your lifestyle. Link To Free Tools To Manage Schedule, Logistics, And FinanceAuthor's www.softtoyssoftware.com website with articles on Program Management and Program quantification tooling using Excel, MS Project, and MS Visio with SQL databases PowerQuery, SQL Server, and MS Access. Articles describe how you can use tools available from the website, or develop these capabilities yourself using commonly available tools. Tools available from this website are free. They can handle small to large programs, limited only by your imagination. Using the included Program Template to envision, organize, plan, and run a large program puts me in mind of unleashing a Roman Legion to a sure outcome. Veni, Vidi, Vici! – Julius Caesar.
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