The challenge of designing AI products

The podcast discusses the challenges of designing AI products, focusing on finding the right level of abstraction and creating intuitive mental models for users. It highlights the importance of understanding the underlying AI technology to design novel interaction patterns, using examples from Visual Electric and ideas around semantic search. The conversation explores the debate around the prompt box as the primary AI interface and considers more dynamic and guided user experiences, emphasizing the need to balance simplicity with the power and complexity of AI.