Leading the Product 2017 - Syed Ahmed - Speaker Slides

Leading The Product 2017Speaker Slides

Melbourne and Sydney, Australia

Syed AhmedBupa, Australia and NZ

For more information go towww.leadingtheproduct.com

Working with HALProduct Management in the age of

Artificial Intelligence

Syed Ahmed@sokahmed

AI will have a profound impact on your personal and

professional life

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• Gates• Pichai• Zuckerberg

• Musk• Bezos

What exactly is AI?

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable

from magic.”Arthur C. Clarke

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A sufficiently useful definition

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Autonomous decision-making

Independent learning

Large volumes of unstructured data

Complex ambiguity

The overly simplified AI cake

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Interactive

Systemic

Academic

Disruption

(Yet another) technology adoption curve

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adoption

novelty capability

Utility

Obscurity

time

Industries are already affected

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Transport (freight)

Legal (discovery)

Finance (trading)

But what about creativity?Original

Emotion-inducingArtisitc

C R E A T I O N8

AI can make great music

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http://www.aiva.ai/

AI can make great art

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https://www.nextrembrandt.com/

AI can make great stories

“Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi”

(The Day a Computer Writes a Novel)

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Still think AI can’t do Product Management?

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• Backlog refinement and prioritisation• User research• Multi-variate testing• Feature / usage analysis

But it’s not all bad news

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The tech has a way to go

software

hardware

network

data

Accelerated augmentation

PM is not low hanging fruit

Product Management

In the meantime …

… what can I do to get started?

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Start using and advocating for a consistent, directionally correct definition

For us, AI means …

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Ask why you might want to use AI techniques in your product

Why do we want to do this

again …?

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Would you ask someone else to do a “thing” for you?

Could you please …

Interactive

Systemic

Academic

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How would you feel if someone already did that thing?

Wait … what?

Interactive

Systemic

Academic

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It’s not just for the devs …START TINKERING!

Now, repeat after me …

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com

Key takeaways

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• AI is not a fad – and it will affect you• It’s progressing rapidly – but still some

way to go• Get started, and get ahead of the

coming changes

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Questions?

Email: [email protected] Twitter: @sokahmedWeb: www.syedahmed.netLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/syedahmed