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Google’s Bard Will Kill ChatGPT — It is Microsoft Teams vs. Slack All Over Again.
History favors the winners, and you know how big Microsoft Teams is.
Colleague: “Alright, we will have a slack meeting in the afternoon.”
You: “What’s Slack?”
Colleague: “Okay, I know this is a Medium article and all. But don’t exaggerate. Everyone knows Slack way before Teams existed.”
Me: “I can’t believe you just spoke to me, the author. This is quite a new dimension in my writing — my imaginary people speaking to me, the writer.”
Colleague: “Bla Bla, Slack?”
Me: “Oh. Okay… Can I write?”
Colleague: “Alright.”
Well, there is a graph that I’ve seen that could essentially prove that there are people out there who know Microsoft Teams and are unaware that Slack was the pioneer in this industry.
This chart, which I would’ve bet you’ve seen somewhere, provides one of the best business lessons of the previous five years. I call this lesson — “Sharks gonna eat.”
The difference between 75 million and 12 million is 63 million. So, back to you, “Colleague,” it’s quite reasonable to believe that there could be someone out there who knows Teams and doesn’t know Slack.
Colleague: “…”
Me: “Next time, please be patient and zip it.”
This is the moment I realize that I am actually talking to myself talking to myself.
Back to the point. The number of people saying ChatGPT around me is scary, seriously…
I mean, here I am, sitting alone in my comfort-zone coffee shop when someone asks me if I am a writer and starts talking about ChatGPT immediately.
I mean, come on… social anxiety? I don’t know you. Leave me alone?
I’m slightly joking. He was a very friendly person, but I, unfortunately, lost him when he started speaking about his atomic physics project as he is studying for a PhD.
