AI hype is outrageously high. Michal Bloch Ron, former PM at Microsoft AI and Teams, helps us cut through the hype by sharing what learned about grounding AI products in concrete user needs. Michal's first role as a PM was to find product applications of the Cortana speech model and text model — one of the most widely-used AI technologies from before the advent of transformers. Currently spending a year at the Stanford GSB, she also gives us a sneak preview of the research she's doing on the future of productivity. Follow Michal Bloch Ron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michal-bloch-ron-3395721b/