Marily Nika

POV: Getting into an argument with Sora about who is the real content creator
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Fast forward to today: 18 years (216 months) later, that adventure became the journey of a lifetime from moving continents, to a PhD in AI to joining big tech in 2013, to founding my own education & learning company, to becoming an author and getting to work with and meet incredibly talented people.

On this day back in 2007, I packed my life into a suitcase and left Greece — for what was supposed to be a 12-month adventure to leave everything behind and study computer science.

Me: I’ll give folks a few minutes to join my AI Agent webinar
Also me, 60 seconds in: 👀 473 participants already

✨ Experimentation is amazing but we need to also start thinking about moving from experiments → operationalization. It’s not about side projects. It’s about integrating AI into roadmaps, KPIs, and ROI.

✨ Biggest myths we had to unlearn:
-“AI is cheating”
-“AI will replace PM intuition”

Back on stage after mat leave at Women In Product's 10th Conference. 1000 people, AI everywhere. I shared thoughts on moving from AI hype → AI how:

✨ All PMs will be AI-first - this needs to be our default lens for solving problems.

🚨 It’s called a bootcamp for a reason 🏋‍♂️ For our September's AI PM Bootcamp cohort, I’m assigning an engineer to every single team — so you don’t just design a capstone project, you *actually* launch it.

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Today I learned that AI can help you interpret a baby’s cry 🧐

Nano Banana is totally bananas 🍌 For folks that haven't tried this yet, it's an advanced AI image model from Google DeepMind that allows you to edit and combine photos with text.

Gemini comes to Google Home! This is the team I'm a part of.It was fun to explore what GenAI can do on communal devices.Some use cases I briefly worked on:“add the ingredients to make an authentic Italian lasagna to my shopping list”,”set a timer for perfectly blanched broccoli” 🥦
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Teaching a “Building AI Agents” workshop while also on hold for 90+ minutes waiting for 'the next available agent' to sort out an insurance bill. The irony...

Product Managers should view AI as a colleague or rather as a team of really smart AI interns.

Prompting ≠ Chatting with AI.

✨ Chatting is conversational. You ask a vague question ("Tell me about go to market strategies") and get a vague, textbook answer. It's fine for simple queries, but not that transformative.
✨ Prompting is directive and it's the skill of giving structured instructions.

Thought of the day: Use AI quietly. The less we talk about AI, the better. The more we talk about what it enables, the better.

Deep voice conversations with advanced AI are an underrated luxury most people haven’t discovered yet.

I got to meet Sundar Pichai last week! Still taking in everything from Google I/O — the learnings & energy — but getting the chance to meet our CEO after 12 years at Google was *easily* the #1 highlight. Sundar visited our AI Builders group at the AI Pavilion & the excitement was obvious. #googleio

AI Builders got their own actual, real TPU at Google I/O today. Coolest swag ever.

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#googleio | Marily Nika, Ph.D 🚨 Top AI announcements on Google I/O (& how to access them) ✨ 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲 - combines features like live web browsing, in-depth research and smart integrations with your Google apps, empowering it...

🚨 Top AI announcements on Google I/O
✨ 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲
✨ 𝗔𝗜 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲
✨ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿
✨ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲!
✨ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮  ⭐
✨ 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂
✨ 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗮𝗽𝗽
✨ 𝗩𝗘𝗢 3
✨ 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
✨ 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀
✨ 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄
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Lately, there’s been a surge in products branded as 'AI Agent for X.' But I believe we’re moving towards a future where simply saying 'X' will implicitly mean it involves AI, and inherently agentic capabilities. How long before users start expecting AI as a default, rather than a differentiator?

I use different AI tools for different use cases. My new discovery that has helped me a lot on every day dillemmas is Perplexity's 'social-only' search that summarizes relevant discussions (with links to actual threads) primarily from Reddit.

AI ≠ Product
AI Agents ≠ Chatbots
AI Product Management ≠ AI *for* Product Management
AGI ≠ Just a bigger, better AI
AI ethics ≠ a solved problem
your skills + AI ≠ your skills OR AI
AI in Healthcare ≠ Just diagnostic tools
Big AI models ≠ Inherently smarter
AI automation ≠ Job replacement

In AI Products,we are building 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿 experiences for users. Experiences they have never seen before.Truth is that users can tell you what’s broken about the path towards a use case, they won't tell you how to fix it.Listen, observe behaviors then design what they didn’t know is possible with AI

If you’re overwhelmed, then you're on the right track. It's when I feel I've got a good handle of things when I realized something is wrong. Don't wait, start with the fundamentals and get used to adapting as things shift.

Someone told me today they were waiting for AI to “settle in” before diving in. AI isn’t settling. It’s evolving. Rapidly. Every day brings new tools (Gemini 2.5, image editing, ghibly-style, new ways to get things done, new companies, new demos, new comparisons... and so on).

and then have them talk to each other!

Seriously considering an AI experiment: training two agents, InnieGPT and OutieGPT. My own digital "Severance".

InnieGPT trained on my pre-5pm work-related GenAI needs: content creation, PRD generation, efficiency hacks. OutieGPT, on the other hand, gets *the entire* rest of my search history..

wow Gemini can now remove watermarks, regenerate images and completely change outfits. This is amazing, it even got the folds of the t-shirt just right.

THRILLED to announce that my book, "Building AI-powered Products: the essential AI & GenAI Product Management", is here—published by O'Reilly! A unique guide to PMs of ALL levels based on my learnings from 12y at Google and Meta.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗠𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗠𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.

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An AI model is not a product. AI is not a product. AI agents is not a product.
Let that sink in.

✨ No matter how advanced AI becomes, the fundamental pain points and real-world use cases *remain unchanged*.

✨ The focus should always be on solving genuine problems.

I bought this from the google store and it reminded me of the most difficult interview question I was ever asked: “describe AI to a 4 year old”.