Main Takeaways: -Research breakthroughs can open up product opportunities. -Partner readiness and values alignment can make or break your product. -Community engagement can accelerate adoption.

1. www.productschool.com
AI & ML Product Management
by Google Product Lead

2. Your Product Management Certificate Path
Product Leadership
Certificate™
Full Stack Product
Management Certificate™
Product Management
Certificate™
20 HOURS40 HOURS40 HOURS

3. Corporate
Training

4. Free Product Management Resources
BOOKS
EVENTS
JOB PORTAL
COMMUNITIES
bit.ly/product_resources
COURSES

5. www.productschool.com

6. AI ML
Mehdi Ghissassi

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8. 8
Speaker

9. France USA UK
About me9
Morocco

10. DeepMind
World leading research lab
10

11. At-a-glance
2009 2010 2014
Demis & Shane
meet at the Gatsby
Unit, UCL
DeepMind founded
“Apollo program
for AI”
Acquired by
Google
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12. ‟
Startup and academic12

13. Private & Confidential
DeepMind’s mission
Solve
intelligence
Use it to solve
everything else

14. Building a general purpose learning system14
Expert system Learning system
Relies on hardcoded knowledge
Can’t deal with the unexpected,
limited to pre-programmed solutions
Inspired by logic systems
Learns solutions from first principles
Can generalise to new tasks and
solve things we don’t know how to
Inspired & validated by neuroscience

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Atari
DQN
AlphaGo
AlphaZero
AlphaStar

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AlphaFold

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18. Product
management
In research
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20. Data centers
consume of global
energy, DeepMind
reduced power used
for cooling Google’s
data centers by up to
Data Centers20

21. Product management21
Focus on the user and all
else will follow
Who is the user?
What is the product?
google_logo

22. Product management + AI/ML research22
ML Solution
Space
x
x
x
x
x
x
✔
Prototypes
Problem
Store
Research
Store
ApplyProductionise
ML Problem
Space

23. Private & Confidential
fall love
technology

24. What does a (Research) PM do?24

25. Is there only one PM?25
Data PM
Consumer PM
B2B PMGrowth PM
Internal Tools PM
Hardware PM

26. How does the balance switch over time?26

27. PMs should own the problem space,
not the solution space
27
You’ve got to start with
the customer experience
and work backwards to
the technology. You
can’t start with the
technology and try to
figure out where you’re
going to sell it

28. What is the problem you’re trying to solve?28

29. Planning Phase:
Develop a strategy
29
Human
TechnicalBusiness

30. Develop and launch30
OKRs tracking
Resource
coordination
Communication Plan & adjust

31. Theory
Product vision and roadmap
31
Problem statement User deep dive Market insights Product ideas GTM options Business case Implementation

32. 32
Reality

33. Lead and collaborate33
Product
Manager
Engineering
Research
PgM
Legal
Users
BD / Partnerships
Finance
Operations
Marketing
Communications
Customers
Partners
Policymakers
Policy
HR
Media
CompetitionData Science

34. Learn and iterate34
Market

35. Summary35
There are many types of PMs - know
which one you are!
Focus on the problem, not the
solution
Take ownership, set goals and drive
execution
Focus on fruitful collaboration
Learn and share experiences

36. www.productschool.com

37. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management Training Courses
and
Corporate Training