Artificial Intelligence Enhancements Now Available for Slack's Paid Users
In a bid to revolutionise the digital workspace, Slack has announced an extensive update to its platform, incorporating advanced AI features designed to automate routine tasks and enhance productivity.
The updated Slack platform now offers full enterprise search, improved task management, enterprise-grade security, and governance controls as part of its Enterprise+ plan. However, access to advanced features depends on the subscription tier.
One of the key highlights of the AI update is the enterprise search capability. This feature allows users to search across internal messages, documents, and third-party tools like Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, and Confluence Cloud using plain language queries. By reducing the time spent on low-value tasks such as searching for information, Slack aims to turn fragmented data into actionable insights, thereby increasing overall productivity.
Another significant addition is AI-powered meeting notes. This functionality automatically generates meeting notes from Huddle conversations and can highlight key action items, saving time and ensuring that all participants are on the same page regarding discussions and decisions.
The AI update also includes language translation capabilities, facilitating communication across teams with different languages. This enhancement breaks language barriers within the workspace, thereby fostering global collaboration.
In addition, the new AI features will provide automatic action items from meeting discussions or brainstorming sessions, streamlining task assignment and follow-up. They will also offer instant explanations for messages by drawing from the workspace's vocabulary and conversation history, improving message clarity and reducing confusion.
Slack is also integrating generative AI directly into workflows, offering AI writing assistance in its canvas tool. This feature aims to enhance content creation efficiency and consistency, enabling teams to produce high-quality documents and guides more quickly.
Salesforce, which owns Slack, has been focusing on enhancing its AI capabilities. Recent acquisitions include cloud data management company Informatica for a net $8 billion and Convergence.ai to develop AI agents that can navigate dynamic digital environments. Salesforce is reportedly using AI for a significant portion of its coding and customer service tasks.
The new AI update in Slack includes features like AI recaps, translations, workflow generation, and AI-powered search. Last month, Slack raised the price of its Business+ plan to $15 from $12.50 per user per month.
By integrating these tools into daily workflows, Slack seeks to transform into an "agentic work operating system," where users can manage their work more efficiently without needing to switch between different applications. The goal is to create a unified channel that supports enterprise apps, data, and agents.
Subscribing to the daily AI Newsletter provides organization-wide AI coverage. AWS and Salesforce executives envision a future with a 'fully AI world' offering 'limitless labor'. However, questions about job displacement due to increased automation remain a topic of ongoing debate.
- The AI update in Slack includes features like AI recaps, translations, workflow generation, and AI-powered search, aiming to turn fragmented data into actionable insights and increase overall productivity.
- Slack's AI-powered meeting notes automatically generate meeting notes from Huddle conversations, highlighting key action items and ensuring that all participants are on the same page regarding discussions and decisions.
- Salesforce, which owns Slack, has been focusing on enhancing its AI capabilities through acquisitions like cloud data management company Informatica and Convergence.ai, to develop AI agents that can navigate dynamic digital environments.
- Subscribing to the daily AI Newsletter offers organization-wide AI coverage, but questions about job displacement due to increased automation remain a topic of ongoing debate as we envision a future with a 'fully AI world' offering 'limitless labor'.
