So this looks like fun. A new option for creating Power Automate flows. Even less coding at least initially. This option will allow you to type in a question. As you type the result window will give you questions that match (more or less) what you are typing to get the ball rolling on building your flow. For example, “Send my Teams channel a notification whenever a new document is uploaded to a SharePoint document library. The possibilities are endless since this means even someone with no skills in this area could start a flow with a question and have someone else finish it up for them if need be.

By Kyle Wiggers – Power Automate, Microsoft’s Power Platform service that helps users create workflows between apps, is getting new AI smarts. During its Ignite conference, Microsoft rolled out capabilities powered by OpenAI’s Codex, the code-generating machine learning system underpinning GitHub Copilot. Starting today (in public preview), Power Automate users can write what they want to automate in natural language and have Codex generate suggestions to jumpstart the flow creation.

It’s Microsoft’s latest move to more tightly integrate the various technologies from OpenAI, the San Francisco AI startup in which it has invested $1 billion, into its family of products. Two years ago, Microsoft introduced a Power Apps feature that used GPT-3, OpenAI’s text-generating system, to create formulas in Power Fx, Power Platform’s programming language. Microsoft also continues to evolve Azure OpenAI Service, a fully managed, enterprise-focused platform designed to give businesses access to OpenAI innovations with governance features.

“Our goal is that anywhere in the ecosystem that a person would need to write code they have the flexibility to start with natural language too, and Codex is core to that strategy,” Stephen Siciliano, VP of Power Automate, told TechCrunch in an email interview. “[These are] new tools that will help users eliminate tedious work and free up time for workers to focus on more high value projects.” Read On: