Description
Learn about AI and how it can help myself
What are the jobs that a PM does where AI can help - and how?
Goals
- Investigate how AI can help with different tasks
- Check out different AI tools, which one is best for which job
- Summarize learning
Resources
- Reading some blog posts by PMs that looked into it
- Popular and less popular AI tools
Work is done SUSE internally at https://confluence.suse.com/display/~a_jaeger/Hackweek+25+-+AI+for+a+PM and subpages.
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