Much like everyone else in the tech industry as of late, I've been doing some investigation into various AI tools. Results have been...mixed. In this post I'll go over some of the results of my experiments and thoughts on where it does and does not make sense to use it today.
I'm doing an experiment with training a chat bot on the history of our team Slack channel to see if it could be used to answer frequently asked questions. The first step is getting the channel history into a format I can feed into a model, and because I'm not an admin on the server I can't use the built-in tools to do it. Fortunately there are other ways, and in this post I'm going to go over the process I used.
