This provides a summary of the changes in Thunk.AI that happened in September 2024.
User Experience
There are significant changes in the UI this month to make it easier to understand what the AI is doing and giving more control over how the AI operates.
New Detail Layout
There is a new layout for item details. With the new layout, the steps are shown along the top with the selected step highlighted. The new layout has the item information on the left and chat window on the right. The item information consists of three sections.
- Instructions are on the top. These can be expanded and contains the step instructions. Changing this information affects all items.
- The lower left contains information related to the inputs of this step. Each step can be limited in what inputs are considered and this can be edited by selecting the plus (+) sign. The Data expanding box contains all the information related to this item and can be used to look at information outside the current step.
- The center column contains the information calculated during the currently selected step.
As you move through the steps, the input and result content changes so you can follow what the AI is calculating and what inputs it is considering.
AI Formula Information
AI Formula displays were enhanced to provide additional information including status, sources of information, columns the result depends on, and how it was computed. These can be seen in the row view and selecting the “See how formula value was created” icon.
Features
There are several new features to expand data type support and improve performance.
List Types
Added a list property type for columns. This enables one of the existing types, text, number, URL, etc, to be a list instead of a singleton. This is available in Planning->Data Outline->Column Properties.
Custom Tool Batch Calls
Custom tools can now take a batch of inputs instead of a single input and the batch will be processed in parallel. This feature can be found under AI Settings->AI Tools
Security
We added a new Google Drive scope ‘DriveFull’ to the supported scopes to allow full access to Google Drive. Thunk.AI requires read-only access to files that users select or create using Thunk.AI to operate. This new scope is used for more advanced scenarios, such as writing to existing files and reading existing files on the user’s drive. The new setting is part of AI Settings.
