Experiment with AI
This step is simply a text box that lets you ask the AI to revise, remove, or add to the input data however you like. It’s the most flexible of the AI steps … but that means it has the most variable results, too!
At launch, you can use Parabola AI steps at no extra charge to your team. After a beta period, we’ll move to a usage-based model for Parabola AI. (You will not be charged retroactively for usage during the beta period.)
Examples of experimenting with AI using this step
- Take a list of product categories, and ask the step to assign emojis to each one
- Change the values in a column to title case… but only if the word looks like a name or a proper noun
- Analyze the sentiment — positive, negative, neutral — of a column with text
- Remove values from a column that meet a certain condition
How to use this step
This step is simply a text box, where you can make a request of the AI (also known as a “prompt”). Your results will depend in part on the specificity of your prompt. Here are some tips for making the most of this step.
- You can refer to existing columns by name. If it helps, you can even try putting them into quotes to isolate them.
- Prompts can be several sentences long. If you start out simply and don’t get the result you want, try explaining your ask in more detail!
- Sometimes using an example helps. If you’re trying to get the AI to rate the cuteness of animals, you can say: “The cutest animals are fuzzy, like squirrels, rabbits, and pandas. Young animals are also cute, like puppies, kittens, and bunnies”
- Check out OpenAI’s tips for writing a good prompt (aka “prompt engineering”)
Helpful tips
- Currently, the AI can only run a few thousand rows at once. Choose and trim your data accordingly
- Sometimes you’ll see a response or error back instead of a result. Those responses are often generated by the AI, and can help you modify the prompt to get what you need.