Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff

Salesforce is promising every Slack user a "digital teammate" to help with tasks such as providing summaries of channels and taking notes from meetings. And responding to office banter on the user's behalf, The Register can only assume. Speaking days after the CRM giant entered into an $8 billion agreement to buy data …

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello, I'm Clippy. Who would you like me to piss off on your behalf today?

[frankyunderwood123]

Surprised it's taken this long...

... for a major enshitification of slack to be proposed.

It's been 5 years since Salesforce bought slack out and by and large slack users won't have noticed much difference.

"Benioff later pointed out that "we're not exactly at that point where the computer is completely conscious, has human consciousness"

Alarm bells are ringing - this is frikkin' slack, where people collaborate.

Nobody. Mentioned. AGI.

Nobody. Wants. AGI.

AGI is <insert years here> away or <not possible | possible>

I think Benioff needs to take it easy on the AI coolaid ... Douchebag.

[StewartWhite]

"Look forward to having a Slack teammate"

I'll respond in the manner that the above comment deserves: No, shan't.