In this new world of AI product development, each week is filled with new and exciting (or not so exciting) product announcements. We can use these announcements to sharpen our product sense skills. You can think critically or just riff off the new product feature to help hone your interview skills.

What solutions does this list spur you to think of?

• Google is experimenting with large language models to help users discover more places in Google Maps. The new feature will answer queries for restaurant or shopping recommendations using its LLM to analyze Maps’ detailed information about places and insights from over 300 million contributors to make suggestions for where to go.

• Amazon has an AI-powered shopping assistant. I haven't tried it yet, but in theory, it should work about as well as Google's aforementioned solution.

Ideas I came up with (in many cases, I leveraged other things I read as well).

• Advice on women's health (another article I read this week said people prefer to get news of an STD from a bot because it is not judgemental). But I would note a trade off is hallucination, it would need to be super specific.

• How to fix a toilet. Imagine use YouTube help videos that are highly rated to ask common or hyper specific question about fixing your toilet. Or better yet, ask about a difficult part in the process.

  • In fact, this is a great example for how all YouTube videos are a source of LLM based Q&A bots.