Ash Sharma, Product Management Leader

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Latest posts from Ash

Trust as the new competitive advantage in AI

Trust will be the KPI to compete on in the #AI hot summer currently under way, and hallucinations in the LLMs driving chatbots is a key problem. If users still have to get a “second...

I hired AI as a Research Assistant

How I hired Google’s Gemini Advanced #AI chatbot as a research assistant 😁 . Interestingly, rather than provide a single-shot answer, Gemini nudged itself to provide a more thoughtful response...

Reasoning capabilities in AI chatbots

Can #AI reason like humans? I often hear pushback in the vein of “LLMs just predict the next token with a certain probability” – but so do humans don’t they 😀 Try posing the...

Google’s Gemini AI (initial thoughts)

Google’s Gemini is excellent at calling the right runtime data stores to augment answers, which makes it shine against other models. However, there may be over reliance on this at the expense of...

Personas in AI chatbots

Talking to Claude.ai (Anthropic) vs ChatGPT feels like talking to two different personas. The underlying foundation model, fine tuning, and learning guidance (notably, Constitution AI in the case of...

How to think about Products

You know your customers’ problems inside out and have strong views (weakly held) about where the market is headed. Leadership expects you to think big and not succumb to incrementalism. Meanwhile...

The Tech adoption chasm

Throwback to 1997 – Jerry Yang defending the internet and an illustration of the technology adoption “chasm” Ran into a fun episode of “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher from 1997, in which...