Slackbot may soon be a lot more helpful than Siri

Aug17

by Sindy Cator on August 17, 2015 at 8:40 pm

Slackbot, the handy (but also annoying) assistant buried within communications platform Slack, may soon be a lot more useful. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield says Slackbot may one day be more useful than Siri. “Apple spent billions of dollars on Siri and worked on it for a very long time with hundreds of engineers and a huge dataset of voices,” said Butterfield. “Siri is nearly useless.” Slack just hired its first data scientist, but won’t create a silo’d offering. Rather than start its own Siri and spend “billions,” Butterfield says Slack will seek partnerships instead.…