@NewtonMark I'm honestly still kinda confused about...

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I'm honestly still kinda confused about this huge push of every single company to shove AI features into products.

There are things about slack I see people complain about or that could be improved.. but the list of proposed features on that page about AI models is not any of those. None of the proposed "improvements" using AI seem actually useful or like they will really make a difference to most users' experience of Slack.

Like 17 May at 14:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on urbanists.social

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Mark Newton

@cassey It’s all just a big science experiment. None of these companies have any idea what they’re doing, they’ve just worked out that they can juice their valuation by squirting “AI” everywhere.

17 May at 14:29 | Open on eigenmagic.net

P Stewart

@cassey @NewtonMark I assume most of it at this point is shareholders thinking "we were told 'AI' makes the line go up, so it's the company's duty to cram it into everything right away before everyone else who was told the same thing does."

17 May at 16:22 | Open on mastodon.sandwich.net

C++ Guy

@pstewart @cassey @NewtonMark
It's even worse than that. A year ago, we had customers asking how we were going to use "AI" in our products: not "how can you solve this problem", not even "could 'AI' solve this problem", but just "we want to use 'AI'." Frankly, it's pathetic. But we did what our customers wanted, and we forced "AI" into every crevice we could find.

I blame FOMO.

17 May at 17:23 | Open on infosec.space