95: AI in Economic Development

What this episode covers

In this episode of the Econ Dev Show, host Dane Carlson shares his experiences using the AI tool ChatGPT for economic development tasks. Built for interacting with OpenAI's models, the chatbot's capacity to understand and generate human-like text has made it a radically transformative tool. Dane talks about various applications for AI technology in economic development and compares it to other automation tools often used in economic development offices. Dane discusses how ChatGPT can be harnessed for a range of tasks, including blog post generation, social media marketing, writing emails, summarizing texts in different styles, and analysis tasks, all without requiring any programming skills. Additionally, Dane has created numerous videos on AI-based workflows designed to support professionals in economic development. To access them, join Econ Dev Pro. Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Sponsored By:KathodeRay Media, Inc.: KathodeRay is a full-service marketing agency that connects government organizations to their community. This small (but mighty) woman owned and operated marketing agency can help your community thrive. They use tried and true methods that will connect your organization to your residents using social, digital and traditional media. https://kathoderay.com Links:OpenAI ChatGPT How to Write a Blog Post with ChatGPT How to Analyze Legalese with Chat GPT AI in Economic Development - Econ Dev Show ADVANCED - Clone of ChatGPT, uses official model, Bing, PaLM 2, reverse-engineered UI, with AI model switching, message search, ChatGPT Plugins, Multi-User System, & Prompt Templates (WIP) — The tool that Dane uses to access ChatGPT