What can and cannot AI do?

Target Audience: Non technical users & Developers

TL;DR

The AI assistant automates data exploration and content generation but requires manual verification and does not perform non-data related tasks.

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When to use this

Use this page to understand the functional boundaries of the AI assistant when generating queries, charts, and metadata.

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What Toucan AI Can Do

The AI assistant performs the following tasks within the Toucan.ai environment:

• Schema Interpretation: Identifies relevant tables and columns based on the connected database structure.

• Query Execution: Generates and executes SQL queries to answer natural language questions.

• Visualization Generation: Recommends and builds chart types based on the identified data and user intent.

• Dashboard Assembly: Constructs complete dashboard layouts from a single prompt.

• Contextual Explanation: Summarizes data findings and explains the logic used to create a visualization.

• Metadata Enrichment: Populates descriptions and semantic field types for database tables and columns.

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What Toucan AI Cannot Do

The AI assistant is subject to the following technical and operational limits:

• No Image Generation: The AI assistant only produces text-based insights and data visualizations.

• No Data Fabrication: Toucan.ai does not guess or synthesize data; it only visualizes results from executed queries.

• No Direct Config Manipulation: The AI assistant cannot modify the granular configuration of a chart once it is placed in a dashboard; manual editing is required for these changes.

• Data-Only Scope: The AI assistant does not respond to casual conversation or non-data prompts.

• Manual Review Required: The AI assistant may produce incorrect inferences; users must validate all metadata and chart outputs before production.

• Security Adherence: The AI assistant cannot bypass defined Row-Level Security (RLS) or user permissions.