Episode Details

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.

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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