Slack is transforming its Slackbot into a ‘personalized AI companion’

I’ve been using Slack for like a decade and the platform’s proprietary chatbot, Slackbot, has always been a bit underwhelming. It can deliver reminders and notifications and, well, that’s about it. That could change in the near future, as the platform is testing a redesigned Slackbot that’s chock full of AI.

The new Slackbot is basically an AI chatbot like all the rest, but this one has been purpose-built to help with common work tasks. Folks can use natural language to converse with the bot and it can…