From the course: Build AI Agents and Automate Workflows with n8n

Making AI agents work for you

- The other day, my coworker asked if it was possible to create an AI-powered Slack bot that can go into a Google Sheet and retrieve only the information they asked for, and then update information when necessary without them having to touch the spreadsheet. And I said, "Yes, you can, if you use an automation tool like n8n." Automation tools have turned out to be the bridge that brings us to the place where we can actually get utility out of AI. In part because automation tools are already set up to plug into everything we're using and in part because AI works so well as a translator between our natural language requests and the machine instructions these automation tools need to operate. And that's what I'll show you how to do in this course. Use n8n to build an agent that takes natural language instructions to perform advanced actions in different tools and then sends back natural language responses. Let's get cracking.

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