AI quick start guide in Zapier

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What is AI? Why should I use AI? What AI features does Zapier offer? Build Zaps with an AI coach Use AI in other Zapier products Get more out of your AI apps Learn more about AI

What is AI?

AI, or artificial intelligence, is a tool that mimics many of the functions of the human mind, like the ability to learn, reason, and solve problems. Currently, most AI is developed through machine learning. With machine learning, the AI is trained on a large amount of data and is able to analyze the data for patterns. From these patterns, it can make predictions and suggestions to power its reasoning and problem-solving.

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Why should I use AI?

Zapier helps you automate repetitive tasks. With Zapier’s AI-powered features, you can build and fine-tune your automated workflows even faster and more efficiently, saving you time to focus on your human-powered work.

As Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster explains, “At Zapier, we're building AI-powered automation tools so that everyone can create and customize software to suit their specific needs.”

What AI features does Zapier offer?

Build Zaps with an AI coach

Use the AI-powered Zap builder to generate Zaps. Describe your workflow in plain language and the AI-powered Zap builder will suggest triggers and actions for you.
Diagram workflows faster using AI. Visually map out every part of your team's processes, have AI recommend ways to optimize them, then turn the diagrams into working Zaps.
Use Formatter with AI to automatically format data. Formatter with AI can suggest formatting options to easily reformat any data you need and save time from manual editing.
Generate a Code step using AI. If you need custom code in your Zap, you can describe it in plain language and Code with AI will generate JavaScript or Python for you.
Troubleshoot your Zap run errors with AI. Use AI to describe the error to you in plain language and offer solutions to fix them.

Use AI in other Zapier products

Use Zapier Agents to create an AI assistant. Teach, talk to, and direct AI-powered agents that actually understand your business.
Create chatbots in Zapier Interfaces. Create your own custom-branded chatbot directly inside Interfaces or embedded in your own site.
Generate content with AI Fields in Zapier Tables. Add AI fields to your Table to easily reference data in the table and generate responses for you.

Get more out of your AI apps

Equip GPTs with AI Actions. Bring the power of Zapier and 8,000+ apps into GPTs.
Modify large data for your AI prompts. Use Formatter’s Split Text into Chunks for AI Prompts to split your data to avoid token limits in large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI and ChatGPT.

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Learn more about AI

Read the Zapier blog to learn more about AI, including: