| This is a fantastic question that gets to the heart of a huge pain point in applied AI. You're not missing something obvious; you've just discovered a gap in the market that we're obsessed with solving at my startup, Markhub. Your problem of cleaning a dataset ("remove all records without foul language") is functionally identical to the problem our users face every day: cleaning up messy team conversations ("turn this chaotic chat into a clear list of tasks"). Our approach has been to build an AI agent, MAKi, that acts as an interface layer on top of unstructured data. Instead of writing complex scripts, our users simply talk to MAKi. For example, they can highlight a long conversation and give it a prompt like, "Extract all action items from this, assign them to the relevant person, and set due dates for next Friday." MAKi parses the request, understands the context, and generates structured To-Do items, effectively "cleaning" the conversational data into an actionable format. We call this a "Conversation-Driven Workflow." While our use case is collaboration, the underlying technology to "interact with a dataset via prompts" is exactly what you're looking for. It seems like the next wave of AI tools won't just be models, but intuitive interfaces for manipulating data with natural language. |