Reid Robinson (@Reidoutloud_, Lead AI Product Manager @Zapier) talks about automation, application integrations and how to integrate AI in projects with Zapier **SHOW: 831SHOW TRANSCRIPT: **The Cloudcast #831 Transcript)
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**Topic 1 - **Welcome to the show, Reid. Before we get started, tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Zapier.**Topic 2 - **Lots of individuals and companies use Zapier for a wide variety of automated tasks and application integrations. Recently, the company has added a number of ways to integrate AI into those workflows. At a high-level, how did you go about thinking about adding AI into the platform?**Topic 3 - **What are some of the most common AI usage-patterns and integrations that you’re seeing companies build around?**Topic 4 - **As Zapier began to integrate with OpenAI (or any 3rd-party LLM), how did you think about it as a source of integration? What did you have to think about regarding filtering, security and hallucinations with ChatGPT?**Topic 5 - **We often hear discussions about AI agents interacting with other AI agents to complete tasks, or evolve the outputs of multi-step, complex tasks. Is that an area where we might expect to see things like the new Zapier AI tools playing a role? **Topic 6 - **What are some of the best ways to get started building AI apps around these new integrations and tools?FEEDBACK?