47 min

SochCast Ep 12 - Building AI Products feat. Zaki Shaheen SochCast by Product Soch

    • Technology

In this week’s episode of SochCast, Abdul Ghaffar sits down with Zaki Shaheen, Engineer at Tome - to unpack the great insights on building AI products and its impact on our future.
Throughout the episode, Zaki shares his insights and expertise on how to create AI products, how openAI fundamental models can be modified, and how jobs will evolve around AI.
Whether you are a seasoned Product Manager or just starting out in the AI field, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tips to help you succeed. Tune in to hear Zaki in a thoughtful and engaging conversation about all things building AI Products.
About the Speaker
Zaki Shaheen is a seasoned software engineer working at a Silicon Valley startup called Tome - an AI tool that transforms documents into presentations. After graduating from FAST in 2008, Zaki worked for a few years in Pakistan’s software services ecosystem before getting the nod from Yelp in San Francisco to work on their iOS app. Soon after that, Zaki was hired by Meta (then Facebook) at Menlo Park where he worked on products like Facebook Avatars and Whatsapp.
Chapters
0:00 Zaki’s Introduction
2:41 Idea Behind Tome
4:34 What it means to build an AI Product?
9:19 How to modify openAI Fundamental models?
12:34 How do social biases works in AI?
17:10 How do you go about building AI Products?
25:17 What are some of your favourite AI Products?
26:38 Upcoming AI Products?
29:42 AI Role in AR/VR
31:31 AI's future: what does it hold?
41:27 In the age of AI, how can one future-proof themselves?

In this week’s episode of SochCast, Abdul Ghaffar sits down with Zaki Shaheen, Engineer at Tome - to unpack the great insights on building AI products and its impact on our future.
Throughout the episode, Zaki shares his insights and expertise on how to create AI products, how openAI fundamental models can be modified, and how jobs will evolve around AI.
Whether you are a seasoned Product Manager or just starting out in the AI field, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tips to help you succeed. Tune in to hear Zaki in a thoughtful and engaging conversation about all things building AI Products.
About the Speaker
Zaki Shaheen is a seasoned software engineer working at a Silicon Valley startup called Tome - an AI tool that transforms documents into presentations. After graduating from FAST in 2008, Zaki worked for a few years in Pakistan’s software services ecosystem before getting the nod from Yelp in San Francisco to work on their iOS app. Soon after that, Zaki was hired by Meta (then Facebook) at Menlo Park where he worked on products like Facebook Avatars and Whatsapp.
Chapters
0:00 Zaki’s Introduction
2:41 Idea Behind Tome
4:34 What it means to build an AI Product?
9:19 How to modify openAI Fundamental models?
12:34 How do social biases works in AI?
17:10 How do you go about building AI Products?
25:17 What are some of your favourite AI Products?
26:38 Upcoming AI Products?
29:42 AI Role in AR/VR
31:31 AI's future: what does it hold?
41:27 In the age of AI, how can one future-proof themselves?

47 min

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