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O'Reilly Bots - #9 - Jassim Latif from Slack on workplace bots — Plus a new bot from Pete and a review of Google Allo
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@rrhoover thanks! we're still in private alpha, but if anyone wants to sign up their Slack team for the waitlist you can auth in here: https://skipflag.com/
There has been a long history of capturing meeting minutes from an audio stream. Have yall thought about how to capture that? Similar to Slack, but audio in-room
@ikirigin Yes, I definitely think this is going to happen and we are doing some of that capture today - the question is how soon the market will be ready for it. Voice capture may get wider adoption via bots in video and audio conference calls. Physical devices like Amazon Echo will also get more adoption in businesses this year. That said, the market size of offices with an Amazon Echo in their conference room is still small right now. As a startup, we are focused on the core application along with interfacing with messaging, email and other places where conversations happen -- voice is just one of several possible UX interfaces.
I thought two of the more interesting points from our conversation with Jassim were:
- What will Slack look like when bots interact with bots
- The possibility of opening up more real estate in the slack client (right sidebar?)
Pete and I talk with Jassim Latif, head of partnerships at Slack, about workplace bots and the promise (and challenge) of bots that can participate in group discussions.
Then, we move on to the first public demo of Rover, Pete's new product from his startup SkipFlag.
Finally, we talk about Allo, Google's new messaging application that includes an AI assistant. It's definitely still developing, but we're impressed by a few aspects of it.
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