- I'd start by using some of the existing AI chatbots to provide a summary of what's said in public channels
- this combined with some tuning for an individual user might get close (e.g. show me a sample of conversation threads, I get to upvote or downvote whether they are relevant to me, create a relative sc…
- I'd start by using some of the existing AI chatbots to provide a summary of what's said in public channels
- this combined with some tuning for an individual user might get close (e.g. show me a sample of conversation threads, I get to upvote or downvote whether they are relevant to me, create a relative score to compare *interestingness* to all Slack users vs to me
- even if the only thing that ever happens is better automated summaries, this would be a net win
I think my question on the summary thing would be, do you think people would actually read it? I feel like people have been writing corporate newsletters since the beginning of time, and I get the impression that they rarely get read. (They feel more like a way for people to say "I shared this with you so you should've known" than anything.) A slack daily digest feels like that to me, where we think we'd read it until we start getting it every day. Though maybe that's ok. It's like getting the newspaper everyday; even just looking at the headlines haphazardly works, as long as you do it regularly.
When I was at Yammer, I think we might've tried to do something like the trending or popular thing, and it either didn't work at all, or I'm making up in my head that we ever even tried it. (But also, that was 10 years ago, and the tech for figuring that stuff out is probably a million times better now.)
Agreed that this is not easy.
- I'd start by using some of the existing AI chatbots to provide a summary of what's said in public channels
- this combined with some tuning for an individual user might get close (e.g. show me a sample of conversation threads, I get to upvote or downvote whether they are relevant to me, create a relative score to compare *interestingness* to all Slack users vs to me
- even if the only thing that ever happens is better automated summaries, this would be a net win
I think my question on the summary thing would be, do you think people would actually read it? I feel like people have been writing corporate newsletters since the beginning of time, and I get the impression that they rarely get read. (They feel more like a way for people to say "I shared this with you so you should've known" than anything.) A slack daily digest feels like that to me, where we think we'd read it until we start getting it every day. Though maybe that's ok. It's like getting the newspaper everyday; even just looking at the headlines haphazardly works, as long as you do it regularly.
My instinct is that people would read it if:
1) limited in size (eg top 3 or 5 threads where you did not participate but are relevant to you
2) incorporated trending (this topic was among the top 3 discussed this week). Topics would need to be filtered so they weren’t too broad.
When I was at Yammer, I think we might've tried to do something like the trending or popular thing, and it either didn't work at all, or I'm making up in my head that we ever even tried it. (But also, that was 10 years ago, and the tech for figuring that stuff out is probably a million times better now.)