If you’ve ever struggled to maintain up with the quite a few threads and direct messages that weave their method by Slack, why not let the AI chatbot ChatGPT choose up the, er, slack?

OpenAI and Salesforce (which owns Slack) have teamed up with an official Slack app, which is curently in beta. (You can sign up for the waitlist, here.)

OpenAI and Salesforce describe the app as a “conversational interface powered by OpenAI’s large language models to get instant conversation summaries to stay informed, research tools to learn about any topic, and provide writing assistance to quickly draft messages.” It sounds a bit just like the app shall be obtainable as a bot to handle, both in dialog or your individual non-public channel, to solicit recommendation or simply present a abstract of what’s occurring.

ChatGPT started taking the world by storm final yr, and the chatbot grew to become the impetus for competing providers like Microsoft’s Bing chatbot and You.com. Other providers, like Canva’s Magic Write, have been designed primarily for artistic ideation and AI-assisted writing, which is what the brand new Slack service will supply as properly. All of those providers are explicitly AI-powered, although there are many you don’t even think about that use AI to assist you.

Salesforce hasn’t mentioned when its app will come out of beta. Microsoft, nonetheless, is looming on the horizon with one other launch occasion on March 16. “The Future of Work with AI” event is predicted to unveil how Microsoft plans to combine AI into Office, most definitely with generative AI inside Word, and attainable AI-infused actions inside different apps—AI-generated electronic mail composition, for instance.