4 ms·
The most interesting part of this is probably Salesforce taking such an aggressive marketing position by calling it 'SlackGPT', when the 'GPT'-suffix is current
by dkyc 3y ago
The 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y agoIt's clearly a partnership https://openai.com/waitlist/slack https://openai.com/waitlist/slack
- foob 3y 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