Portraits by Google Labs lets you talk to AI versions of real experts. Starting with 'Radical Candor' author Kim Scott, it offers AI coaching based on her knowledge & voice. An early experiment.
It's interesting to see how AI is evolving. While the raw capabilities and voice quality of AI are advancing incredibly fast, real-world value often comes down to something more fundamental: trust. We might believe an AI is capable, but we tend to place our trust in the experience and authority of proven human experts.
A new experiment from Google Labs called Portraits builds on this exact concept. Instead of a generic AI, it offers conversational AI representations of trusted experts, built in partnership with them. It’s launching with a Portrait of Kim Scott, the author of "Radical Candor," to provide AI coaching based directly on her work and in her voice.
So, you're not just getting an answer from a capable model, you're getting guidance grounded in the specific expertise and content of a person you already trust. It's a fascinating approach to bridging AI capability with human authority, and a very important direction for making AI assistants genuinely more useful and trusted.
About Portraits on Product Hunt
“AI coaching from trusted experts, by Google Labs”
Portraits launched on Product Hunt on June 6th, 2025 and earned 178 upvotes and 14 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Portraits by Google Labs lets you talk to AI versions of real experts. Starting with 'Radical Candor' author Kim Scott, it offers AI coaching based on her knowledge & voice. An early experiment.
On the analytics side, Portraits competes within Artificial Intelligence, Books and Business — topics that collectively have 597.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Portraits performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Portraits?
Portraits was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Zac Zuo
Hi everyone!
It's interesting to see how AI is evolving. While the raw capabilities and voice quality of AI are advancing incredibly fast, real-world value often comes down to something more fundamental: trust. We might believe an AI is capable, but we tend to place our trust in the experience and authority of proven human experts.
A new experiment from Google Labs called Portraits builds on this exact concept. Instead of a generic AI, it offers conversational AI representations of trusted experts, built in partnership with them. It’s launching with a Portrait of Kim Scott, the author of "Radical Candor," to provide AI coaching based directly on her work and in her voice.
So, you're not just getting an answer from a capable model, you're getting guidance grounded in the specific expertise and content of a person you already trust. It's a fascinating approach to bridging AI capability with human authority, and a very important direction for making AI assistants genuinely more useful and trusted.