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Re: Slack AI

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Post by drcongo » Mon, Jul 01, 2024, 11:05 AM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #44

doix wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Engineers brought slack into companies because it was like IRC but non-tech folk could use it. Teams didn't exist when slack became "cool". It was Lync or Skype for Business, or something along those lines. The timeline and the rebranding is a bit blurry, but they were truly awful compared to Slack. Slack stopped being cool (for me) when they killed the IRC bridge. After that it became just another enterprise tool th…

There should be Hipchat in the timeline and many xmpp deployments.

Hipchat was great. Native app too.

Re: Slack AI

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Post by madeofpalk » Mon, Jul 01, 2024, 11:26 AM UTC

mvdtnz wrote: post #41

madeofpalk wrote: post #29

Hmm. None of these features seem to be particularly useful. If a channel has so many unread messages that you need a summary of it, maybe try just not. I don't want a daily round-up from multiple channels - I want Slack to just show me messages from multiple low-volume channels in a single view.

> If a channel has so many unread messages that you need a summary of it, maybe try just not. "Try just not" what? I can't tell my colleagues to stop communicating.

I think it's useful to properly interrogate how much discussion is actually important and worth reading, rather than continiously piling on additional tools.

Re: Slack AI

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Post by sadops » Mon, Jul 01, 2024, 2:18 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #16

pfych wrote: post #7

I wonder how long it will be until we hear about a company accidentally doing something because the Slack AI summary / AI search incorrectly paraphrased a request. I really wish AI companies would call hallucinations what they really are - Mistakes. Using wishy-washy words like that make non-techy people trust outputs of LLMs much much more than they should. "Oh it just hallucinated - how silly!" instead of "It got i…

> I really wish AI companies would call hallucinations what they really are - Mistakes. At the bottom of every ChatGPT conversation: "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info."

"Our product doesn't work, but please use it anyway."

Re: Slack AI

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Post by sadops » Mon, Jul 01, 2024, 2:19 PM UTC

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #39

sadops wrote: post #19

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I really wish we'd stop anthropomorphizing these things. They're not hallucinating, the program simply returned an error. Remember, y'all, this stuff is just Markov chains with extra steps. An incorrect answer from any other computer program is called an "error", and apparently LLMs are the only piece of software in which significant amounts of them are tolerated, because they look just like a mechanical Turk, and ar…

They aren't markov chains. Even GPT-4 knows this.

I'm critiquing their functionality. I know they aren't literally Markov chains... Ask ChatGPT about humor as a tool of criticism.