Podcast #95: AI in Economic Development

Episode 95 of the Econ Dev Show Podcast is out.

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The Podcast

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 announced that has created numerous videos on AI-based workflows designed to support professionals in economic development for the Econ Dev Pro members.  

Episode Links

• OpenAI
• ChatGPT
• 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 mostly uses to access ChatGPT
• How to Write a Blog Post with ChatGPT
• How to Analyze Legalese with Chat GPT
• AI in Economic Development - Econ Dev Show

Sample Videos