Using ChatGPT to solve a PDM network with FS0 relationships

Abstract

Construction management professors, like educators in other disciplines, cannot ignore the rise of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is one of the best-known AI applications available to the public for free or for a relatively small fee. ChatGPT is mostly used for essay writing, but students are pushing the boundaries and trying to solve more and more problems with AI. In this thesis, we investigate whether ChatGPT can solve a simple time analysis problem on a PDM schedule that contains only FS0 logical connections. The result of the research is that in the case where the network contains only FS0 connections, ChatGPT can be trained to correctly perform the first phase of time analysis, but it is not guaranteed that the new knowledge will be remembered and applied in the next chat. However, this does not mean that this will not change in the short term, and other users may benefit from the new knowledge generated in each conversation. This article was written on 1 June 2023 using ChatGPT version 4.