AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)

0:00If you think about the first era of AI products as chat, the second era of these products working with agents, that third era that might come soon is how do you work with a persistent coworker who is able to get things done with you.

0:14There's this idea of the overhang of what AI is capable of and what we're actually doing with it.

0:19It's so hard to understand what is going to emerge in the future.

0:24You fail if you build for where the models are now.

0:27You fail if you build for where you think the models will be in a year.

0:30Both outcomes are equally wrong.

0:31The only way to build is two to three.

0:34What if you had to most adapt to and adjust in how you operate as a PM in this world?

0:38Being prolific and empirical is way more important than being academic or theoretical.

0:44Rather than writing out some long reasoning documents, instead it's like, how do I get to something I can try out and test with users as fast as possible?

0:52It feels like not only are we able to be more ambitious, we almost need to be more ambitious, which is not natural for a lot of people.

0:58Elevating others' ambitions or reminding them of what's possible here is a huge part of the product management role.