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Slack GPT, the Future of AI in Slack
- amelius 4y agoAnd have my data end up in a model? No thanks ...
- lordofgibbons 4y agoIt says "...Anthropic’s Claude or build your own custom integration" in the first bullet point, so nothing would stop you from hosting your own model.
- CodeCompost 4y agoOut of curiosity, let's say I do want to create a my own model based on all my e-mail, communications and code, how do I go about it? And how can it be done without Open-AI?
- replygirl 4y agohttps://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy#information https://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy#information > make Services or Third-Party Service suggestions based on historical use and predictive models your data is already in models, it's up to you whether you want to benefit from it more or no
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoToo late; assume that everything you post on any service connected to the internet is harvested and processed in a model of some sorts. If you don't want that to happen, you will have to use offline tools and set up your own chat server (e.g. mattermost, IRC, etc).
- smeagull 4y agoOnly way I'd be interested is if this could turn Slack into an actually useful repository of information. Being a chat room isn't it. Email chains from usenet where better repositories of knowledge.
- epups 4y agoLots of "will", "in the future" and "later this year", but no clear demonstration that they are building anything good at all. They are just trying to get to parity to Microsoft, who is already integrating ChatGPT to Teams.
- swader999 4y agoLast thing I want in slack is generated content. I want honest communications warts and all.
- DogLover_ 4y agoWelcome to the future! There is no way stopping that now.
- surgical_fire 4y agoWhy would generated content be "dishonest"? If you are actively using a LLM through slack to generate content, why would that be "dishonest"? It would actually be pretty cool functionality if it could ingest the data from a channel and answer queries I have about what was discussed there.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoWell same, and so far I'm managing, but I can imagine there's plenty of larger organizations where keeping up with everything that might be relevant to you in Slack (or other channels) is a day job, distracting you from your actual day job. I have a compulsion to join channels relevant to me and to keep reading messages until everything is marked as read. So far this has worked okay, but at the same time I realize sometimes half my day is spent just keeping up with things instead of my actual day job. Speaking of which, I should get back to it.
- fhd2 4y agoSame, but I'm not so worried about it, it all comes down to trust. I got an email the other day by someone offering to do my work for me, sharing their earnings. I suppose some people might do that sort of thing, and with a (different) human being on the other side it's even harder to tell you're being tricked. If you get people throwing generated content at you instead of talking to you - maybe for some people in some contexts that's actually useful. In other contexts it's not, and can be dealt with. I presume organisations will figure out how (not) to use LLMs given some time, and will hold their workers accountable to that.
- Veen 4y agoI don't know. Some of the semi-literate gibberish I often have to deal with in Slack conversations might benefit from a pass through an LLM.
- W4ldi 4y agoI'd be nice if normal things like audio/video calls and screen sharing would work properly first
- fathyb 4y agoI was expecting a lot when they announced video-conferencing, given that the app itself is well-designed and performs generally great. But when I finally got to try it it crashed the app, and never really worked ever since. Such a shame, I'd love to have a single app for messaging and audio/video chats.
- imron 4y ago> and performs generally great. If you discount memory usage.
- nottorp 4y agoNo one has native apps any more, do they?
- the_gipsy 4y agoI wouldn't say that it performs great, it barely chugs along. Not the bar I would like to set for a chat app.
- fathyb 4y agoI found that it was the case compared to other alternatives for large scale corporate messaging. Genuinely curious what would you recommend? I did try IRC a few times, but I really value a centralized searchable log of messages.
- the_gipsy 4y agoI wish that the slack company would focus on performance and e.g. making video calls work on Firefox. As alternative recommendation, matrix.org is somewhere between IRC and slack/telegram. It's an open protocol like IRC, so you can pick your preferred client (and server) and aren't trapped on some platform. Open source also means that it's not as UX streamlined as proprietary stuff, mind that. It does have a lot of modern features like attachments, reactions, replies, etc., which I found to be almost unusable on older systems like jabber.
- lordofgibbons 4y agoI wonder if this is a glimpse into the future of how A.I will actually be interacted with by users instead of clunky chat interfaces. My guess is that A.I will just be another auto-complete like feature in already existing products instead of dedicated "A.I products".
- DogLover_ 4y agoThat has always been the case. That is why I also believe coding will be forever changed with these models. We won't be copy/pasting into a chat-interface but this will be integrated everywhere making it a completely different way of working.
- replygirl 4y agopreviously not discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35816367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35816367 (0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812985 (0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813391 (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813856 (0)
- netsec_burn 4y agoWhat is the last link?
- replygirl 4y agothanks for pointing that out, i'm using a third party keyboard with a virtual buffer that's been broken since 2015
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- commitpizza 4y agoI don't get it, sure it's nice to have quick actions in Slack but the types of content I write in Slack/Teams are not usually stuff I care so deeply about that I need to get the help of an AI to improve it really. If I really want something to be improved by an AI I can just pop over to OpenAI's portal and do it there. It's just short messages, back and forth and I thought that was kind of the point of chat apps? This feature would be more useful in say, an email client where the communication is more often more formal.
- DogLover_ 4y agoThat is your workflow. Many places have replaced email with Slack. For DMs people might not care how good the message is but for public channels where there are many recipients I am sure people care about the quality of their message. The fact that it might be more beneficial in an email client I don't think is relevant for Slack as a company.
- martinpw 4y agoI think improving your writing is the least interesting use case here. How about things like: * Summarize this 200 message thread and list the key action items? * Find and summarize a discussion I vaguely remember I had with persons X and maybe person Y on topic Z about three months ago
- hanselot 4y agoYour slack Pro trial has reached its limit. You can unlock full access to your message history by contributing RLHF data to the hivemind.
- yosito 4y agoThe article doesn't go into detail about how this feature works. But the fact that you need to bring your own LLM makes me suspect that you won't be able to query the AI about information contained in your organization's Slack channels. And if you can't do that, this seems like little more than a few shortcuts in the Slack UI to use ChatGPT.
- nmca 4y agoIn the not too distant future, GPT-like models will have read all of your emails, every message you've sent, the entire company slack, your calendar, all the company internal docs and all the code. Some more forward-looking orgs will transcribe a large fraction of meetings too. LMs will then write responses based on that up-to-date context and at least the reasoning ability currently shown by GPT4, if not better; they will also be able to propose many actions on the basis of that context such as sending an email, creating a slide deck or writing a pull request. Next decade is going to be fun.
- drawfloat 4y agoA model processing all that data doesn't sound fun. Sounds like the next generation of Cambridge Analytica waiting to happen, but this time it's information on every facet of your life. I realise this is completely permited by Slack/other services and you agree to it as part of ToS, but people did with Facebook too. Doesn't lessen the rude awakening that awaits the majority of users.
- hanselot 4y agoImagine how AGILE we can be if we each have our own AI micromanaging us on our local machines.
- FridgeSeal 4y agoI want off this wild ride. Are you ready for EXPONENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY gains, optimise EVERY FACET of your life with generative AI that will commoditise your most personal and internal nature.
- LeeroyWasHere 4y agoYes, let's make humans the physical APIs / interfaces for machines and plug them directly into people's ears. Can't wait to be told when is the optimal time to go to the bathroom.
- rounakdatta 4y agoIsn't the name Slack GPT against OpenAI's branding guidelines?
- zmmmmm 4y agoWe're definitely nearing the top of the hype cycle. This is the point where I start really looking forward to trough of disillusionment.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoA big part of the trough will be lawsuits and the legal system navigating through these developments, from the owners of the source data. The other one will be protests from e.g. illustrators, photographers, text / script writers, etc who are fighting for their job. Me as a programmer, I'm not too worried; tools like Copilot are just the next evolution in tooling that IDEs added years ago, or even things like libraries so that I don't have to think about implementing low level functionality and can focus on solving a customer's problems more.
- ano88888 4y agoif slack didn't sell, they would have a great mole in AI powered slack
- cooperadymas 4y ago/slackgpt show me how much cumulative time each individual employee has spent chatting and in huddles talking about personal stuff over the past 30 days
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- dkyc 4y agoThe most interesting part of this is probably Salesforce taking such an aggressive marketing position by calling it 'SlackGPT', when the 'GPT'-suffix is currently strongly associated with OpenAI. Particularly ironic since Slack doesn't seem to be launching any type of GPT-like model as part of this announcements, it appears just to be a rebranding of a bunch of APIs Slack already has, with the enterprise software marketing dress-up as a revolutionary AI productivity boost.
- lysecret 4y agoThe public has associates GPT with LLM/ or more explicitly “a thing that responds to my free text like a nice human would.” Much more so than OpenAi. If they call it SlackLLM 99% less people would know what you mean.
- kugelblitz 4y agoThat shouldn't matter in this case. If the brand is created / owned by OpenAI, Slack shouldn't be able to use it just because it's more convenient for them. Otherwise I can just create HackerNewsSlack. It's a chat system with plugins, but doesn't have anything to do with Slack.
- lysecret 4y agoIs it ? It just means generative pretrained transformer can they own that? I guess so. Edit: they filed for GPT trademark but don’t have it yet and it’s questionable if they get it.
- FranksTV 4y agoIt's clearly a partnership https://openai.com/waitlist/slack https://openai.com/waitlist/slack
- foob 4y agoIt's also explicitly against OpenAI's branding guidelines and will potentially infringe on the GPT trademark if that gets approved. I would have expected Salesforce to be conservative about that considering they're more dependent on OpenAI than OpenAI is on them. [1] - https://openai.com/brand https://openai.com/brand
- GiorgioG 4y agoInstead of working on the fad of the quarter, can you please fix the mess that is threads? Anytime someone @'s me in a random thread, it's an awful experience to find exactly where I'm being hailed. Yes there's the "Threads" list, but that's absolutely useless.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoThis works :). Generate a randomized timesheet for a week between the hours of 9am and 4pm for three different projects called A, B and C accounting for one hour of lunch with random time allocations with the largest being one hour and the shortest 15 minutes
- fweimer 4y agoIt's going to get interesting once Slack (or a partner) starts offering access to models which have been trained on conversations, either from your workspace or globally across all workspaces. Or maybe a combination of both (say, an industry-specific model that gets refined using recent data from your workspace). This could be quite useful. On the other hand, it looks like a security nightmare, even if the makers of the model think they have successfully mitigated the risks (which they always do, and never achieve). Slack clarified their privacy policy in January that they consider message contents unrestricted data (that they can share freely) after it has been de-identified. Essentially, they changed “We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified Other Information for any purpose” to “We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified Information for any purpose”. “Other Information” does not include message contents, but plain “Information” does. Of course, de-identification (to protect user privacy) is likely to retain confidential business information, such as customer names, the technologies they use, and so on. I don't think it's an actual change to the policy, because this kind of permission was heavily implied by the privacy policy before. It's unclear to me if the permission we have to grant individually, before we can use a Slack workspace, overrides contractual obligations negotiated by the workspace owner regarding message confidentiality. I assume that Slack has a “you pay for confidentiality” model, but I'm not sure how far it actually goes, given that change to the privacy policy.
- senko 4y agoI've seen people share passwords, secret keys, and bunch of other sensitive info in corporate Slack (ie. treat it the same as they'd treat eg GMail or Google Docs on a corp account). If Slack wakes up one day and starts feeding that into a generative AI that has the potential to regurgitate it wholesale, "nightmare" doesn't begin to describe it. And after the first incident, I imagine there'd be a flood of companies dumping Slack for anything else.
- TeeWEE 4y agoEvery time GPT is integrated somewhere is seens as a next step. But this is just the ChatGPT api being called from slack... Not much to see here. Its in the research of getting those models smarter where things really happen. A G I
- nbzso 4y agoSo not only Slack will have all my business process data, OpenAI will know it too? Nice. We need more AI integration ASAP.
- fredgrott 4y agoHmm, It will be interesting to see how Slack prevents private company data from leaking out via ChatGPT input or how Slack stepped into a liability sand trap with their eyes closed.
- minipark 4y agoI just installed Claude to our Slack. This was our first interaction: Q: Hi @Claude what can you do for us here in Slack? A: I apologize, but I am not Claude. My name is Claude and I was created by Anthropic. I am not impressed.
- Mandatum 4y agoZzz