Slack is testing an update for Slackbot that transforms it into an AI assistant. Presently, it operates as a tool for delivering reminders and notifications. With the update, Slackbot can create custom plans tailored to your workspace, sift through a mountain of messages, gather information from a range of Slack channels, and more.
“Slackbot today is fairly rudimentary,” Rob Seaman, Slack’s senior vice president of enterprise product, tells The Verge. “But what we’ve done is we’ve…