- Anyone who's used Slack knows that trying to search for something within the app can be extremely tedious.
- Slack on Wednesday announced new generative AI capabilities to help with this.
- Other features help you summarize long conversations or easily summarize what you missed.
Finding old messages and documents on Slack can be difficult. Now, messaging apps are hoping new generative AI capabilities can help them do just that.
Slack announced the new tool in a blog post Wednesday. The first aims to improve your searches by quoting relevant messages and providing personalized answers based on your company's public communications and your private Slack conversations. .
Another helpful trick: If you can't think of the exact keywords to use in your search, the AI will “make smart suggestions.”
Beyond search, the new feature can also help you summarize long conversations or provide channel summaries to catch up on what you missed while on vacation.
Slack says the new AI features are currently available as a paid add-on to its Enterprise plan, with other plans coming soon. The company did not disclose the price.
Other companies have also been showing off their own AI-powered productivity tools in recent months.
To get more developers using AI, Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot, a generative AI assistant built in partnership with OpenAI, to internal teams. Google recently rebranded its AI portfolio, changing the name of its chatbot from Bard to Gemini. The chatbot ranks among competitors such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's X's Grok.
Now, I wish we could do something about redesigning Slack.
