AI Today Podcast

Generative AI is one of the most accessible forms of AI currently available. While in the past, you might have used AI without knowing it, you can use Generative AI purposefully in ways that have immediate and dramatic impact on your daily life. In this episode of AI Today hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss what soft skills are necessary to get what we want out of Generative AI.

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AI, and in particular generative AI, is having a profound impact on just about every industry. In this episode of AI Today hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Saby Waraich to discuss AI’s impact on Project Management. Saby is CIO at Clackamas Community College and and speaking at the PMI Austin, TX Professional Development Day May 2, 2024.

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Effective communication is an important skill to have. And, in this AI-era it’s more important than ever. In this episode of AI Today hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Patti DeNucci. She is an author, speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant and keynoting the PMI Austin, TX Professional Development Day May 2, 2024.

How does AI impact communication?

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Experimenting, testing, and refining your prompts are essential. The journey to crafting the perfect prompt often involves trying various strategies to discover what works best for your specific needs. A best practice is to constantly experiment, practice, and try new things using an approach called “hack and track”. This is where you use a spreadsheet or other method to track what prompts work well as you experiment.

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Plugins for Large Language Models (LLMs) are additional tools or extensions that enhance the LLM’s capabilities beyond its base functions. In this episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss this topic in greater detail.

Can I use plugins with ChatGPT?

Plugins can access external databases, perform specific computations, or interact with other software and APIs to fetch real-time data, execute code, and more.

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As folks continue to use LLMs, best practices are emerging to help users get the most out of LLMs. OpenAI’s ChatGPT allows users to tailor responses to match their tone and desired output goals. Many have reported that using custom instructions results in much more accurate, precise, consistent, and predictable results. But why would you want to do this and why does it matter?

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Companies of all sizes in every industry are looking to see how Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cognitive technology projects can provide them a competitive edge. They want to provide efficiencies and improve ROI in today’s competitive landscape. As a result, this creates tremendous opportunity in the field of AI for professionals who are CPMAI certified and follow the CPMAI methodology.

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To improve the reliability and performance of LLMs, sometimes you need to break large tasks/prompts into sub-tasks. Prompt chaining is when a task is split into sub-tasks with the idea to create a chain of prompt operations. Prompt chaining is useful if the LLM is struggling to complete your larger complex task in one step. 

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LLMs are basically big “text predictors” that try to generate outputs based on what it expects is the most likely desired output based on what the user provides as the text-based input, the prompt. Prompts are natural language instructions for an LLM provided by a human so that it will deliver the desired results you’re looking for.

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AI is helping to re-imagine experiences of all sorts, including air travel. At the 2024 SXSW Conference and Festivals Bernadette Berger, who is Director of Innovation at Alaska Airlines presents on “The Sky’s the Limit: How AI will Re-imagine Airports”. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts and AI thought leaders Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer have the opportunity to interview Bernadette.

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