Understanding the differences between AI and traditional software products

There are a number of differences between traditional software products and AI/ML products. In the following subsections, we’ll first go over how they’re similar, and then we’ll note the differences between the two to give us a well-rounded sense of what to expect when you’re product managing an AI/ML product. This will help us establish a baseline as well as a deviation from traditional PM work. When you’re a PM, you’re often tasked with being the person to maintain an intuition about your product and how it will grow and evolve through the process of building and shipping the product and working with your engineering team.

Part of that intuition will relate to how you will market and sell your product, what kinds of customer needs and issues your product can anticipate, as well as potential problems that might arise as you start to get into the weeds with building...