Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations
Slack's CEO sees AI as pivotal for transforming the platform into organizations' 'long-term memory'. AI integration enhances productivity by converting key conversations into actionable tasks. Collaboration with Salesforce's Einstein Copilot exemplifies this vision, aiming to streamline user experiences and boost productivity.
Read original article
Slack's CEO envisions AI as the key to transforming the platform into the 'long-term memory' for organizations. The integration of AI into Slack aims to enhance user productivity by facilitating the retrieval of key conversations and converting them into actionable tasks and projects within the platform. This move towards AI integration is exemplified by Slack's collaboration with Salesforce's Einstein Copilot, following Salesforce's acquisition of Slack in 2020. The goal is to provide users with a seamless experience where AI efficiently processes data to offer essential summaries, streamlining the search process and improving productivity. Slack's future plans include expanding AI integration across various functions to enhance user experiences and productivity. The focus is on creating a unified and efficient platform where AI seamlessly assists users without disrupting the familiar Slack interface. By leveraging AI capabilities, Slack aims to simplify task management, project collaboration, and information retrieval within the platform, ultimately aiming to boost productivity and streamline workflows for users.
Related
Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
Character.AI optimizes AI inference for LLMs, handling 20,000+ queries/sec globally. Innovations like Multi-Query Attention and int8 quantization reduced serving costs by 33x since late 2022, aiming to enhance AI capabilities worldwide.
LibreChat: Enhanced ChatGPT clone for self-hosting
LibreChat introduces a new Resources Hub, featuring a customizable AI chat platform supporting various providers and services. It aims to streamline AI interactions, offering documentation, blogs, and demos for users.
Guide to Slack AI
Slack AI integrates generative tools to summarize conversations, offering customizable daily recaps and a search feature for quick answers. It prioritizes data security and privacy, aligning billing with workspace plans.
Merlin Labs aims to test an AI-powered KC-135 within a year
Two startups, Merlin Labs and EpiSci, collaborate to develop self-flying tankers and advanced AI for dogfighting. They aim to create AI pilots to reduce human pilot dependency in Air Force missions.
Apple Wasn't Interested in AI Partnership with Meta Due to Privacy Concerns
Apple declined an AI partnership with Meta due to privacy concerns, opting for OpenAI's ChatGPT integration into iOS. Apple emphasizes user choice and privacy in AI partnerships, exploring collaborations with Google and Anthropic for diverse AI models.
21 commentsYes, context switching is expensive. I don't see how never leaving Slack changes that, there is enough going on there to make it hard to stay on task. Plenty of windows, DMs, channels, integrations pinging you, meetings about to happen.
I can only imagine they are starting to dream of SlackOS where everything is AI powered and you never leave Slack but you are still wasting the same amount of time, just in their product.
About features:
Calls and screen sharing work well.
Threads are horrible, it's where messages go to hide and die because nobody notices them.
Search is poorly implemented: for some reason it's difficult to find stuff.
A customer of mine would like a mix between a chat and a forum software, to give threads a name and persist them in a menu and reference them later on.
Not much money in that though.
What I find slack enables though, is technical documentation being stored in such chats instead of something more formal, like an API or an up to date README.
Even more horrible is technical know-how being shared in video calls, as video-calls are easy to make, are interactive, you can draw, you can have fun, "it is easier and takes less time this way".
How about code highlighting in markdown-style triple-backtick blocks instead of requiring snippets? Or the ability to have a separate window per workspace in the native app? Or maybe marking thread responses that echo to the channel marked as read when I see them in the channel, rather than requiring an explicit click into the Threads section? Or a huddle video feed that isn’t blurry at 4K so I can actually read the text getting shared?
I do like Slack, but some of these missing features just feel like missed table-stakes, and their focus seems elsewhere.
Aside for the Slack users I see in action... Get something useful for the long term is well... Less valuable then the cost 99% of the time... It's not version control for a software project, the signal/noise ration of information is so terrible to the point of being just garbage.
When I was working with Slack I felt that most of the communication had more depth and broadnesses and after transition to MSTeams I personally feel that the whole chatter decreased significantly and folks are more prone to start a call than to “Create a Post” with title and write down.
Teams is...fine.
Of course then we switched to teams which isnt as useful for finding anything, so that problem is solved /s.
Related
Optimizing AI Inference at Character.ai
Character.AI optimizes AI inference for LLMs, handling 20,000+ queries/sec globally. Innovations like Multi-Query Attention and int8 quantization reduced serving costs by 33x since late 2022, aiming to enhance AI capabilities worldwide.
LibreChat: Enhanced ChatGPT clone for self-hosting
LibreChat introduces a new Resources Hub, featuring a customizable AI chat platform supporting various providers and services. It aims to streamline AI interactions, offering documentation, blogs, and demos for users.
Guide to Slack AI
Slack AI integrates generative tools to summarize conversations, offering customizable daily recaps and a search feature for quick answers. It prioritizes data security and privacy, aligning billing with workspace plans.
Merlin Labs aims to test an AI-powered KC-135 within a year
Two startups, Merlin Labs and EpiSci, collaborate to develop self-flying tankers and advanced AI for dogfighting. They aim to create AI pilots to reduce human pilot dependency in Air Force missions.
Apple Wasn't Interested in AI Partnership with Meta Due to Privacy Concerns
Apple declined an AI partnership with Meta due to privacy concerns, opting for OpenAI's ChatGPT integration into iOS. Apple emphasizes user choice and privacy in AI partnerships, exploring collaborations with Google and Anthropic for diverse AI models.