Dropbox Dash AMA: November 2023

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s4337_Alex wrote:

Amazing! I am still learning how to use Dash, but I see the potential for improved productivity. If you were to see my Dropbox (which, of course, I would not allow), you would notice cluttered files and folders, as well as duplicated photos and documents. This is due to my human weakness, which, unfortunately, I enjoy and embrace. 😄 Dash helps me search through files, emails, and any other data I provide to this amazing tool. However, it cannot help me find where I put my socks and shirts. 🙂

I have two questions. First, what is the difference between Dropbox AI and Dash? Do they use the same AI technology? Second, could you please provide me with a cheat sheet for using Dash? Or is Dash already smart enough that I don't need one? Third (apologies for the earlier lie), when using Dash in Microsoft Edge, my Bitdefender flagged something funny. It says "msedge.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an expired certificate to bzib.nelreports.net...(and so on)". Fourth (sorry for another desperate lie in the beginning), is there a plan to update Dropbox Paper with AI technology?

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Thanks s4337_Alex.

1 - DropboxAI is the ability to ask questions / summarize your documents that are in Dropbox; Dash allows you to connect all of your cloud content (including Dropbox) and do universal search and other advanced AI across all of that.

2- Hah! well, I have all sorts of stacks around projects I'm working on. I love how I can put cloud links from various services in one place and pin them or find them with search. I also really like the 'semantic search' which lets you search with natural language (vs having to remember exact keywords) it is better than the in app search in many cloud services (e.g. I don't think gmail has semantic search) so it's super useful. I also think it's really neat to summarize your documents and to 'chat' with them, e.g. try asking for facts inside of a document. Dash can sometimes find them and you don't have to read the doc at all.

3- Sorry I can only answer 2 questions...

3 - actually I really can't answer this one. It kind of stumped the team too. Can you send feedback/a bug and team can investigate?

4- I don't have any news about Paper. Thanks for asking!