Slack has introduced a series of built-in features powered by artificial intelligence that provide summaries of topics and channel summaries, while also allowing you to ask questions about what’s happening at work.
Last year, the workplace management platform began experimenting with artificial intelligence features for the first time, and now these new features are being offered as an additional paid function for Slack Enterprise users.
You can leverage the perks of artificial intelligence to get a comprehensive summary of conversations and understand the statements made by each person in the conversation.
There is also a way to get a summary of conversations being broadcasted in the channels.
You can select a star icon in the top right corner of the channel to allow artificial intelligence to summarize only the unread messages, or messages that have appeared in the past seven days, or messages sent within a time frame defined by you.
This option is useful when you are away from home for several days and want to keep up with work events.
The smart features of artificial intelligence allow you to ask questions about a specific project you are working on or about the workplace policies, provided they are mentioned in Slack.
The artificial intelligence feature known as “related messages” allows access to any topics raised by the user and can be customized for using abbreviations used in Slack in your workplace.
You can integrate the benefits of artificial intelligence with other platforms that can be connected to the platform, allowing you to do things like getting summaries of documents from the productivity platform Notion in link previews or asking questions about content in the cloud service Box.
In addition, Slack is developing more tools to summarize information and prioritize it, along with a unique set of artificial intelligence advantages.
The platform is developing a new feature to summarize content, extracting key ideas from selected channels in case there is not enough time to read dozens of messages.
Slack is working on integrating its smart robot “Einstein Copilot” for chat, allowing the robot to write messages on your behalf to your colleagues.
Slack says it adds the large language models it uses within the platform, ensuring that customer data is protected and will not be used for the benefit of other clients, and additionally, customer data will not be used in training the large language models.
