So every app needs to have some AI tie in? Would uber eats be feeding me fake AI generated food?
AFAIK they've been using it for years to resolve customer complaints.
Slack AI
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Re: Slack AI
#32Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.
Making a fake Chatbot that can masquerade as a person is unlikely to be a feature of slack. In the article, it focuses on summarizing, which I personally feel would be immensely valuable. It would be great too if the AI can learn my personal relevance somehow so it can guess which messages I’d care about and which I don’t.
I'd be very careful about trusting an AI to summarize human communication particularly for work stuff. Things get forgotten and incorrect info gets posted (private Google docs link instead of shared link).
People also send screenshots and non text info like Slack calls. Is Slack going to listen in on calls as well?
Re: Slack AI
#33If it can parse signal from the noise of slack channel overrun, I'm in.
Re: Slack AI
#34Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.
Making a fake Chatbot that can masquerade as a person is unlikely to be a feature of slack. In the article, it focuses on summarizing, which I personally feel would be immensely valuable. It would be great too if the AI can learn my personal relevance somehow so it can guess which messages I’d care about and which I don’t.
I'm holding out for the chatbot that can do my meetings for me
Re: Slack AI
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their search isn't bad imo. I actually use it pretty frequently for things I barely remember, and it's pretty solid.
The search is awful. I search for exact things which I typed yesterday, and it recommends stuff in archived channels from staff that left 5 years ago.
At least I am 99% certain they index only whole words. YYMV
Re: Slack AI
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Einstein Team? : 0 I hate the trend of people's name getting associated with companies they have no connection with. Tesla is bad enough but are you saying the ml department of salesforce is called Einstein? Hilarious.
Why not name the team on basis of what it actually does, but that would make too much sense in a organization, none of us want that.
At the last few companies I worked the Product Owner gets to name the Product. The general path has been "look up Latin, Greek, German, Gaelic, cartoon, fiction and find something that is attractive to the PO".
I don't even know what a Y combinator is but this is Hacker News which is somehow from Yahoo! iirc.
Re: Slack AI
#37Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.
I am trying to build a bot that will do just that to demonstrate this is exactly what we should NOT be doing.
My bot will be very verbose and intentionally annoying to the degree that responses will be fully evident of being written by "not me".
Re: Slack AI
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I didn’t think I’d like it either, but turns out it’s far easier and cleaner to convey simple thoughts with a tiny picture. Not sure how accessibility tools like screen readers handle those, though.
As a sighted person, I still find it really useful that I can hover over any emoji in slack and get its textual representation, e.g. :thumbsup:. I believe screen readers just process those.
The only gripe I have about this is a super implementation detail (perhaps on our instances only): the “thank you” hands emoji is :pray:. There is also a :thank: that is the same emoji, but it’s weirdly lower res.