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Podcast #95: AI in Economic Development

AI does the heavy lifting and Dane sits back with a coffee (all while secretly fearing a robot takeover).

Dane Carlson
Dane Carlson
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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.  



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CEO of Sitehunt, the AI platform for economic development, site selection and RFI automation. Host and publisher of the Econ Dev Show. In Houston, Texas.


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