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How to Build Great Products in the AI World

BY James Gadsby Peet on February 9, 2017

What does technology do to society? When technology and human ingenuity gets together, everybody in society profits. If you look at graphs of GDP / capita over long time periods (850 years+), the trend is always upwards. The only things that drag this progress down are severe periods of sickness (like the black death) and Read more »

The Future of Talking to Technology

BY Chris Massey on December 19, 2016

Christoph Auer-Welsbach, Partner Innovation Leader at IBM Watson, introduces us to Watson. ‘Talking with Technology’ is an engaging and thought-provoking talk about how Artificial Intelligence is changing the interface between humans and machines. The era of human-machine relationships is transforming customer interactions and provides new opportunities to scale and enhance human expertise.  As product managers, Read more »

Designing Invisible Products

BY Dennis Mortensen on November 17, 2016

As we created our AI assistants – Amy & Andrew – to help people book meetings painlessly, we encountered quite a few product design challenges which were, quite frankly, completely novel. When designing an artificially intelligent agent that humans would enjoy interactive with via conversation, the factors you need to consider and the hoops you have Read more »

Why We Need Product People to Save AI, by Ashwini Asokan

BY Martin Eriksson on June 24, 2016

In this talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Ashwini Asokan sums up the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) today as Brains, Bots, and Bullshit. For the last few years the headlines have been clear – AI could destroy us and ruin humanity, with killer bots taking our jobs and becoming our overlords. Clearly we’re Read more »