[Ailist] how to track down what business and organizations in agiven location are using AI

[Suzanne Mariner]

Hi Jerome,

If I were in your shoes, I think that the first thing I'd do is attend an AI 
training through the Corporation for Positive Change.  The trainings I've 
done with their facilitators have been outstanding and have been very useful 
in helping me to get my "bearings" in the AI world!

Best success to you!,
Suzanne Mariner
Integral Health Associates

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerome Petiprin" <jeromepet at hotmail.com>
To: <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: [Ailist] how to track down what business and organizations in 
agiven location are using AI



>From reading through the Commons Archive, I can see that most of the 
>participants are discussing problems, questions, or issues about 
>implementing AI or facilitating AI training.  I'm coming from a different 
>angle, but I doubt I'm the only one with my question.

I just stumbled across AI for the first time this past week (my Zen teacher 
was talking about her experiences at a recent big AI summit or hoo-ha or 
whatnot at Disney World, and I was bowled over by what she related--I've 
been looking for something like this in the work world for decades; I had no 
idea it was going on).

I'm between jobs, and I now definitely want my next job to be with a 
business that is currently using AI or at least has started down that road. 
I happen to be in Austin, TX, but I assume that the way of tracking down 
this kind of information would, in a general way, basically be the same no 
matter where one might be located.  I don't know that it's relevant to my 
question here, but just in case it is, the work area my experience is in is 
knowledge engineering for high-end software (tech support and tech 
writing/editing and knowledgebase web access for tech support).

I've looked at the Corp for Positive Change list of clients and I've looked 
through the AI Commons list of AI practitioners and AI organizations.  And, 
of course, Google: Appreciative Inquiry Austin TX.  So I have some possible 
starting points from these.

I'm just wondering if there are some resources I haven't thought of.  I've 
been out of the job search loop for about six years, so some of my 
networking gears are pretty rusty. There might be some things blindingly 
obvious to folks who have been around the AI world for a while that I'm 
completely missing.

If you were trying to find out what companies in your area are already using 
AI, how would you go about it?




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