OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that the popular messaging app Slack leads to a lot of \u201cfake work\u201d. Altman then went on to add that there is potential for replacing it with an AI-driven alternative that could also replicate some of the work done by Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n
In an interaction on the Conversations with Tyler YouTube channel, Altman said, \u201cThere are positives about Slack. There\u2019s also like kind of dread the first hour of the morning, the last hour before I go to bed, where I’m just dealing with this explosion of Slack.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it does create a lot of fake work. I suspect there is something new to build that is going to replace a lot of the current sort of office productivity suite \u2014 whatever you think of, like Docs, Slides, emails, Slack, whatever. That will be sort of the AI-driven version of all of these things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The statement by Altman gave his long-time nemesis Elon Musk another opportunity to fire away a warning to Microsoft. Replying to a video of Altman\u2019s comment, Musk said, \u201cAs I was saying, OpenAI will compete directly with Microsoft.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point, it\u2019s insanely suicidal for Microsoft to continue supporting OpenAI,\u201d Musk wrote in response to another post.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk’s warnings for Microsoft<\/p>\n
Notably, after the GPT-5 launch earlier in the year, Musk had warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about OpenAI trying to take away much of the market share of the tech giant.<\/p>\n
\u201cOpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive,\u201d Musk had remarked in a post.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have been trying for 50 years and that\u2019s the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete,\u201d Nadella had responded back then.<\/p>\n
OpenAI has indeed been releasing newer products that compete with its biggest backer, like the Atlas browser or search features directly within ChatGPT<\/a>. However, Musk himself has earlier said that he wants to develop an AI-backed rival to Microsoft called \u201cMacrohard<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n The billionaire also runs xAI, which develops the Grok AI<\/a> chatbot that is trying to take a major chunk of the AI race, including from the likes of Microsoft. Meanwhile, Microsoft still largely relies on models from OpenAI to power many AI features in not just Bing but even its Office apps. The company has, however, begun to prefer Claude AI<\/a> in some of the recently launched features for Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that the popular messaging app Slack leads to a lot of \u201cfake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,605,61,60,1071,7689,77043,77044,77042,43898,80],"class_list":["post-132191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-sam-altman","tag-sam-altman-ai","tag-sam-altman-openai","tag-sam-altman-slack","tag-slack","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}