Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
Business Booms
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm
It’s 2020, the height of the pandemic. The company sells product management courses. Product managers (P.M.s) have plum jobs within the tech ecosystem: they’re not nerdy like engineers, not airheaded like marketers, not heartless like sales reps. They make six figures. Many people decide now is a good time to become a product manager. Business booms. A few years later, A.I. can do a lot of product management tasks, and...
