Was asked this question in a PM Interview at a unicorn Fintech based in Bangalore. I tried my best to answer but just trying to understand what PMs here would try to solve this?
I'm not a PM but if I were to answer I would ask about the user base (just to show that I am user focused, I want to get to killing right away). Then I'll think of cheapest solutions. Bombs,guns etc are operationally expensive. So I'll go with poisoning. Easiest method will be gas.
As for the robots, putting AI in every robot is again expensive. So instead I would prefer a fleet of robots, controller by an AI. Decision making is centralised and it is easier to stop in case of any bugs.
But gas propagation is also hard to control, so we might want to use data analytics to figure out where and when the majority of our targets will be together.
Example, if they all are same company, are they of same educational institution etc and try to optimise it.
Each robot will keep count of the kills, misses etc and we will use it as feedback to improve our next versions. Monitoring and feedback is essential
(I have no idea what PM does, I just wanted to try making cheap killer robots)
Now that I think about it, gas is easily preventable with masks. So we need something that can go through masks. Maybe radiation, but then there's no way to control it (with current technology atleast).
Then what? Poisoning the water? But they can figure out filtration.
We can use supersonic sound waves to burst their eardrums maybe. But those machines can be expensive and operationally expensive to carry around as well.
Maybe we can use AI, to turn each targets digital assets to zero. They become broke, can't afford anything and are driven to kill themselves. This might not work on everyone. Low success rate.
Well well, everyone please tell your ideas as well
@SuperNova This is actually such a detailed answer that I will use this in parts
Prime Minister or product manager ?
🤣🤣🤣 Best!
@Momo_chutney I think Product Manager
Not a PM but adjacent function (PMM). Such questions are meant to throw you off, do the framework to answer. I’d first laugh and ask why who is the user etc while thinking ye kaisa chutiya hai
Then I’d:
Understand needs - population control? Crime control? Terminator in real life? :p
Prioritise what to build to meet end goal - most kills least spends
Solution - link how features will achieve what
Trade offs - AI evaluation can be flawed - add human reviews before killing
Summarise
@chillpanda This is actually not a bad question
@Jackietrader Didn’t say it was. But I don’t see why you’d make young IC candidates suffer such hypothetical questions.
This one is a bit nasty since if the candidate is a “good person” they’d be battling their conscience about AI killing humans before even attempting the solution.
