Definitely. I'm tempted to yawn due to the massive hype cycle and bandwagoning, except that many GPT integrations are truly useful.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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It really reminds me of the hype in 2016 around blockchain. Every MBA out there is slapping AI all over the place, telling dev teams it'll revolutionize everything. and to be fair, there are a lot of great places it can make a lot of change, both positive and negative. But, we're also seeing all the "What the fuck, why do we need AI here"
For example, I was reading a blog about how this company added AI for their reporting, and they could do things like "Show me the average sales by day of the week". Which it did, and hey that's cool. Except, looking into it it was a SQL database. Guys, why did you need AI for that. You could literally write a query that does that. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Sales GROUP BY DAYOFWEEK([SaleDate]). Did we really need to implement AI for that?
Slacks problem isn't with generating things to say, it's with managing attention spans and navigating between conversations easily. If the integration can help with that, maybe it will make sense. But if it just helps people write, that is nice but I'd be concerned that it would lead to longer and less direct messaging.
Interesting. I know our company currently prohibits the use of GPT for security concerns. I assume that this will be regulated by the workplace admins. Regardless, I'm interested in how slack plans integrate it
Hey not everything needs to be federated! I’m a huge decentralization advocate for large scale community resources but for most commercial settings a centralized service like Slack will do the trick!
I always leave a bing chat window open in the corner of my desktop while working. It’s great for getting quick concise answers.
Obviously I can't speak for most, but the most power we could get for my work w.r.t. slack and gpt is a knowledge engine consuming from our wiki and "public"/shared information channels.
It would be nice to have an AI coworker who knows the answers to obscure questions.
I hadn’t considered this, but this would be awesome.
Having it go 2 ways and draft new articles (thinking TODO pages) based on Slack mentions would be interesting too, I think?
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