Artificial Intelligence

Jamie Bright Author

12/12/2024 Added

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Informal discussion of how members of the group are using artificial intelligence tools. Recorded 12/11/2024.

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[00:00:00.000]Thank you.
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[00:01:29.940]Good morning, everyone.
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[00:03:29.700]I don't realize how messy my office is until I see it on Zoom, the boxes behind me.
[00:03:35.940]Jamie, I feel like you always have a different background, though.
[00:03:44.060]Like, you have multiple offices, so.
[00:03:46.020]I do.
[00:03:46.940]I have an office in Sydney.
[00:03:48.380]And one in Kimball.
[00:03:49.520]And then I work from home part of the time, too.
[00:03:51.780]And we're shifting things around in Sydney.
[00:03:55.000]And I'm going to work more in the Kimball office.
[00:03:57.020]So, all of these boxes are things from the Sydney office that I brought over here.
[00:04:02.360]Fair enough.
[00:04:04.600]Well, all for good reason, then.
[00:04:06.220]Give it just another minute or so.
[00:04:17.840]All right.
[00:04:19.140]All right.
[00:04:49.120]Kate, when I jumped out of that other, the Whirlpool webinar a little early, was it still going when you left?
[00:04:56.680]Yeah, I jumped out a few minutes early, too.
[00:05:00.300]But, yeah, they were still just kind of sharing ideas back and forth.
[00:05:04.040]I don't think you missed too much.
[00:05:05.640]The way a little, too.
[00:05:10.580]So, I'll have to catch up with some of it later.
[00:05:13.780]Well.
[00:05:18.040]Well, today is just informal.
[00:05:21.820]We don't really have a presentation.
[00:05:23.480]I just want to hear your thoughts.
[00:05:25.240]But let's do introductions first.
[00:05:27.940]Because we have a new Rural Prosperity Nebraska educator I want to introduce.
[00:05:32.120]I think all of you know me, but I'm Jamie Bright.
[00:05:36.580]I am the RPN educator in the Southern Panhandle.
[00:05:41.380]And then we'll just go around the room.
[00:05:44.760]Mary, you're first on my screen.
[00:05:46.820]My name is Mary Ibra, and I am the founder and CEO of an organization called Volunteer Nebraska.
[00:05:55.320]And I'm real curious how many of you may have either heard of it or know anything about us.
[00:06:00.660]Mary, would you like to speak at a future Rural Rendezvous webinar?
[00:06:06.340]Absolutely.
[00:06:07.820]Okay.
[00:06:08.980]I will get your email address.
[00:06:13.700]I love you.
[00:06:15.800]And connect with you.
[00:06:16.960]I think I've heard of it, but do you do much work out west, or do you work mostly in the eastern part of the state?
[00:06:25.420]No, we are statewide.
[00:06:26.900]Okay.
[00:06:27.840]All right, let's go to Jordan.
[00:06:33.260]Hello, I'm Jordan Dietrich.
[00:06:36.540]I'm the Executive Director of Twin Cities Development.
[00:06:39.500]We're a regional economic development organization in western Nebraska.
[00:06:43.460]Thanks, Jamie.
[00:06:44.920]Hannah.
[00:06:45.080]Hey, I'm Hannah Robinson.
[00:06:49.580]I'm the Director at Boxview Development Corporation, so Economic Development for Boxview County, based in Alliance, and covering Hemingford as well.
[00:06:58.420]Anthony.
[00:07:01.620]Hello, Anthony Garolla with Twin Cities Development.
[00:07:07.180]I'm the Community Development Specialist here, helping Jordan and helping our panhandle.
[00:07:12.520]Thanks, Anthony.
[00:07:15.780]Sean.
[00:07:16.380]Good morning, everyone.
[00:07:19.660]I'm Sean Kasky, and like Jamie, I am a Rural Prosperity Educator.
[00:07:24.300]Today, I'm here in Custer County.
[00:07:26.480]I serve eight counties in central Nebraska.
[00:07:29.020]Doug.
[00:07:31.480]Hi, I'm Doug Mader.
[00:07:35.920]I'm the Workforce Training Director here at Western Nebraska Community College, serving the whole panhandle.
[00:07:42.240]Doug.
[00:07:44.040]Michelle.
[00:07:44.800]Michelle.
[00:07:44.900]I'm sorry, I just got here. What's the assignment?
[00:07:50.200]We're just doing introductions.
[00:07:51.960]I'm Michelle Coolidge with BB Associates and currently the City Administrator with the City of Bridgeport.
[00:07:59.500]Casseline.
[00:08:01.940]I'm Casseline McCarrick, the Alliance Chamber of Commerce Director.
[00:08:06.260]We have businesses here in Alliance coming forward, spots, welcome, hearing.
[00:08:09.460]Emily.
[00:08:12.240]Emily.
[00:08:12.360]You got muted again.
[00:08:23.160]It doesn't want to stay.
[00:08:27.280]There you go.
[00:08:27.960]It does not want to stay.
[00:08:28.720]Hey, my name is Emily Worrell.
[00:08:31.800]I live in North Platte and I work with six regions, one Nebraska, for the Mid-Plains Community College region.
[00:08:37.260]Thanks, Emily.
[00:08:39.040]Lauren.
[00:08:40.480]Lauren.
[00:08:41.460]I guess Lauren can unmute.
[00:08:49.840]There you go.
[00:08:54.160]Good morning, Lauren Sheridan from the City of Neely and Village of Clearwater, and I am the Economic Development Director here.
[00:09:05.320]Thanks, Lauren.
[00:09:07.440]Stacey, we're just doing introductions.
[00:09:10.980]If you'd like to introduce yourself.
[00:09:12.300]I'm Stacey Pappard with Phelps County Development Corporation in Holdridge.
[00:09:18.360]Thanks, Stacey.
[00:09:20.280]And Caitlin, I will have you introduce yourself.
[00:09:26.700]All right.
[00:09:28.640]Hi, guys.
[00:09:29.200]I'm Caitlin Rose.
[00:09:29.940]I'm the new RPN educator for the Northern Panhandle, and I'm based in Sheridan County in Rushville, Nebraska.
[00:09:37.100]So, yeah.
[00:09:37.740]And remind me which counties you cover.
[00:09:40.500]Which counties you cover.
[00:09:40.960]Caitlin.
[00:09:41.420]Dawes, Sioux, Sheridan, and then all the way through Cherry, and then underneath Thomas, Hooker, Grant, the smaller ones as well.
[00:09:52.400]And I see Rob just joined us.
[00:09:56.940]Rob, would you like to introduce yourself?
[00:09:58.740]Good morning, Rob Irick, Extension Educator, Engagement Zone Coordinator for the Panhandle.
[00:10:06.040]I think I've met most of you on the screen, so welcome.
[00:10:10.000]Thanks.
[00:10:10.800]Thanks, Rob.
[00:10:11.420]Okay, as I said, for those of you who were on early, today is just really informal.
[00:10:19.000]I'd like to hear from you what AI tools you use and how they make your life a little easier
[00:10:27.180]or any questions you might have about AI.
[00:10:30.720]I have dabbled in it a little, but I'm very far from an expert.
[00:10:36.240]I know Jordan uses it probably more than I do, and Sean also probably.
[00:10:40.640]So if you guys want to kick it off and kind of give us some ideas about the best tools or prompt advice, whatever you think would be helpful.
[00:10:55.040]I'll go first, Jamie. Yeah, so I use AI, I mean, definitely weekly, if not almost daily. I made a list of everything that I use it for. And then so we use I use chat GPT mostly for all of my work.
[00:11:10.480]All of my AI stuff and then some of their extra tools. But then also our, we work with GSLI, Global Site Location Industries for business attraction, and they use AI. I don't know what they use for AI, but they use AI for our marketing campaigns and for all of that for our business attraction.
[00:11:28.700]So we use it very often.
[00:11:30.880]One thing that I actually used it for just this morning was a job description. I just posted a housing.
[00:11:40.320]Development specialist job for TCD and I basically what I did is I just put in the general gist of what the job is and then it just created an awesome job description for me and I have to change a couple things here or there, but it created job description for me.
[00:11:54.400]We actually use job descriptions as a member benefit for TCD to so we help.
[00:12:02.740]I actually just Jamie sent me one just the other day for Oshkosh so we use it as a tool to help our members.
[00:12:10.160]Create job description so internship job descriptions full time part time, you name it and so they send us the name of the position and then we can create a job description for them.
[00:12:19.620]And it basically just takes a second to do it.
[00:12:22.640]Jordan got that back to me in like five minutes when I asked for a job description.
[00:12:27.180]And it was pretty simple and it was a really good job description too so and it makes us look great. So, another thing, one thing that I actually used it for just this week, which I've never used it for before.
[00:12:40.000]I was on a zoom call that was actually talking about AI and how we could use it, and he used it to create a song. And so I threw in a prompt to create a Twin Cities development jingle.
[00:12:52.380]So it made a little jingle for our Twin Cities development, I probably won't use it but it was kind of cool, because it threw it together within a couple minutes, so you can make songs with it photos we use it for photos, my LinkedIn profile picture is a
[00:13:09.840]photo.
[00:13:10.420]Do you use chat GPT for that one, or do you that one was something that was something else like you can use it through chat GPT, they have some like extension, or whatever.
[00:13:21.980]I use something else I don't remember what it was called.
[00:13:24.500]But yeah, so it makes me look better than I look so it's really cool.
[00:13:29.940]And then I use it for letters, like letters of support or letters to attract businesses.
[00:13:40.000]Or you name it.
[00:13:41.160]So I use it to draft up letters all the time.
[00:13:43.220]I actually had somebody I drafted a letter for one of our employees, like a letter of
[00:13:48.540]recommendation for something that they were doing.
[00:13:50.300]And I had it was a requested by someone that they knew.
[00:13:54.260]And they told they called me or something after.
[00:13:57.540]And we're like, that is they said they used to be an English teacher.
[00:14:00.800]And that was the best letter that they've read in years.
[00:14:04.900]And I'm like, well, yeah, of course it was.
[00:14:07.260]I didn't tell him it was AI.
[00:14:08.260]But that was.
[00:14:09.700]That was kind of cool.
[00:14:11.760]And then also, we use it for business plans.
[00:14:15.280]So someone comes in, they need help with business plans, we use it to make business plans.
[00:14:20.500]I use it very heavily when I'm writing grants.
[00:14:23.820]It helps a lot when you're writing grants.
[00:14:25.320]And obviously, you really have to dig in and change things because it'll do some inaccurate
[00:14:29.880]things in there.
[00:14:30.880]But use it for grant writing.
[00:14:32.960]We use it for ideas.
[00:14:34.740]We have the Nebraska Talent Attraction proposal.
[00:14:39.220]That's due.
[00:14:39.700]On the 20th, we used it to create ideas.
[00:14:42.300]It created 30 different ideas for us, and then we were able to go through those 30 ideas
[00:14:46.380]and pick out our favorite ones.
[00:14:49.460]I use it for posts on Facebook.
[00:14:53.460]Use it for topics.
[00:14:56.880]So this is one, Jamie told me that I did a really good job of creating a topic and description
[00:15:02.700]for a conference.
[00:15:04.940]So I spoke at the Sydney Entrepreneur Conference.
[00:15:09.220]Jamie was like, you did such a good job with your topic and description, I used AI for
[00:15:13.400]that.
[00:15:14.400]It came up with an awesome, awesome topic, awesome description.
[00:15:18.420]It was amazing.
[00:15:19.420]And for the presentation, you used Gamma, Jordan?
[00:15:22.820]What was that?
[00:15:23.820]Gamma for the presentation on the CEC conference, and you spoke for the chat.
[00:15:29.200]What AI software did you use?
[00:15:30.500]Oh, it was ChatGPT.
[00:15:31.500]Yeah.
[00:15:32.500]Yeah.
[00:15:33.500]Yeah.
[00:15:34.500]ChatGPT.
[00:15:35.500]And then also another one that I used it for, and I got caught on this one.
[00:15:38.740]But I used it for, it was either an anniversary or a birthday post for my wife and it was
[00:15:44.820]really good.
[00:15:46.420]And literally I walked downstairs and I'm all excited that she, you know, she's like,
[00:15:50.040]I saw your post and she's like, I know that wasn't you.
[00:15:53.800]So I've used it for that before too, but that didn't work out for me very well.
[00:15:57.700]So, but yeah, those are some of the main things I use it for.
[00:16:01.820]But like I said, I use it today, so I use it all the time and it's a great, as long
[00:16:05.780]as you use it right, it's a great tool.
[00:16:08.260]We've had interns here before and I recommend to our interns that they use ChatGPT to help
[00:16:15.860]them with their jobs as well.
[00:16:17.380]So that's all I have.
[00:16:18.380]And do you use the free version or the paid version, Jordan?
[00:16:22.440]I just use the free version.
[00:16:23.920]So to do that music one, like to do the music, you do have to do a paid version.
[00:16:28.180]It gave me one free song.
[00:16:30.740]So I got my free song and that was it.
[00:16:33.140]But, but yeah, I just use the free version for it, but I actually was just this week
[00:16:37.780]looking at the paid version to see if it would be worthwhile.
[00:16:41.220]It might.
[00:16:42.220]So.
[00:16:43.220]Thank you.
[00:16:44.220]Mary, can I jump in here?
[00:16:47.000]Because I have done a presentation on educating a speaker's group that I did on what I experienced
[00:16:52.500]with ChatGPT and I love it.
[00:16:55.340]But when I asked ChatGPT to give me an outline of what they do, it came out like some mind
[00:17:02.680]blowing description, I mean, I couldn't even share it because I couldn't get into the
[00:17:07.300]science of it.
[00:17:08.760]And so I asked it to give it to me at an elementary level.
[00:17:12.700]And it gave me this simple little explanation.
[00:17:15.640]And I went, Oh, my gosh, this is something that everyone will understand.
[00:17:19.860]So depending on how you ask it, the question will depend on what you get back for feedback.
[00:17:25.900]Yeah, that's true.
[00:17:27.300]I had someone use it for a business plan, and their business plan was huge.
[00:17:31.540]It was like over 100 I mean, it was like a 200 page business plan for just a simple business.
[00:17:36.820]Like, you should probably ask it to make a shorter one for you, because no banker, nobody's
[00:17:41.920]going to read that.
[00:17:42.920]So but yeah, that's funny.
[00:17:44.720]I agree, Mary, that's it'll, it'll do what you tell it to do.
[00:17:47.440]A lot of times if it's like a letter of support, I'll say please provide me one page letter
[00:17:52.040]of support.
[00:17:53.040]It doesn't need to be two pages.
[00:17:54.040]One page is good.
[00:17:56.660]There are two acronyms, or I guess I can't think of the right word.
[00:18:06.340]Ways you can remember things to help prompting.
[00:18:10.440]Topic is one, pay attention to the tone or tell it to use a certain tone.
[00:18:15.620]Output, be very specific, like Jordan said, create a one page document.
[00:18:21.720]Persona, say, pretend you're a college professor writing this, and it'll try to put it in those
[00:18:28.000]terms.
[00:18:29.000]Instruction, be very clear on what you want from AI, and then give it constraints
[00:18:35.860]as well.
[00:18:37.520]And another one is craft, which is context.
[00:18:41.860]Make sure you provide some context so it knows more specifically what you're looking for.
[00:18:46.160]Role, which is similar to that persona one and the other.
[00:18:50.620]Audience, as Mary said, tell it what sort of audience you are preparing this for.
[00:18:57.700]Format, if you want a letter or some other type of document, and then task and tone with
[00:19:04.380]a T.
[00:19:05.380]And another prompt idea that I read recently was, especially if you're doing brainstorming
[00:19:15.160]or putting together some sort of document, you can say what did I forget to ask and see
[00:19:22.060]if it comes up with anything else for you.
[00:19:24.420]Okay, Sean, do you want to talk a little bit about how you used it?
[00:19:30.740]Sure, thanks.
[00:19:34.900]So, you know, the way I guess for the audience that we have here today and working for organizations
[00:19:43.040]and typically making your audience and letting them know what the good things you've been
[00:19:48.820]up to, the newsletter, and Jordan sort of mentioned that, is sort of you can give it
[00:19:54.820]with the correct prompts, a list of activities and the free version of CHAP, like you, Jordan
[00:20:03.420]or Jamie had just indicated.
[00:20:04.420]If you tell it that you want a newsletter-type tone, make sure that your specific instructions
[00:20:10.240]you provide in the prompt, who your target audience is, all that in the prompt before
[00:20:15.900]you hit enter.
[00:20:17.480]And then if it does it wrong, you can reprompt it and say, make it more formally.
[00:20:22.480]But for time-saving purpose, newsletter and your roles is a really nice one to be able
[00:20:28.520]to sort of put those things in there, creating sort of success stories about a business.
[00:20:33.940]One tool that I use quite a bit, and I do pay for the description, is Clawed Sonnet
[00:20:40.860]3.5, and it does a nice job with analysis.
[00:20:44.080]So with Clawed, you could take three different documents, up to five documents you can attach
[00:20:50.240]to it.
[00:20:51.240]It's $20 a month, so definitely worth that much time, and it'll take pieces of those
[00:20:58.380]and make you a newsletter, it'll make you sort of a white paper brief.
[00:21:03.460]Like if you're trying to make a brief for a specific member of your board, it's going
[00:21:08.740]to take specific documents and make that in there, so CLAWD 3.5 is very good for that.
[00:21:16.600]The other one, that's why I was sort of quizzing Jordan about when he made a presentation for
[00:21:20.960]CEC, the other one that you use is Gamma, and that was a free version of Gamma, and
[00:21:28.240]I think it'll let you do, I'm not sure what it is, but a few presentations in one.
[00:21:32.980]Everyone's muted, I don't know where the background noise is coming from, Sean.
[00:21:49.140]Okay.
[00:21:50.140]Oh, you know what, that's a video on my end for some reason.
[00:21:58.220]Gamma is for PowerPoint presentations.
[00:22:02.500]You can easily drop your content in there and you can, that's a free one.
[00:22:08.740]So I would recommend is using Gamma for PowerPoint, Claude for integrating multiple documents
[00:22:16.720]to create something.
[00:22:19.300]And I'm not sure if they're, if they are, if there's a free version of Claude or not,
[00:22:26.640]I knew that I was going to need that capacity, so I'm actually going to try to share.
[00:22:32.020]Our folks, let's see, home screen here, put this up on, there we go.
[00:22:43.000]So choosing the right tool.
[00:22:44.380]So Del Gines, I'm interning with the International Economic Development Council, and he, he has
[00:22:51.920]this nice, he's done a lot of speaking on this topic.
[00:22:55.720]And so there's different AI versions for different things.
[00:22:58.240]So like Jordan had mentioned, chat at GBT is your better, best option.
[00:23:01.540]Your best all-around tool for versatile tasks.
[00:23:06.220]You want to do business writing, maybe for a board meeting that you're getting ready
[00:23:09.960]for, for investor group.
[00:23:11.660]I would recommend CLAW, it does a really nice job of integrating multiple sources in a professional
[00:23:18.460]manner.
[00:23:19.460]For doing sort of system-wide things and integrating communication things, like some of the things
[00:23:24.180]that Jordan, Gemini is the one that I haven't really played with.
[00:23:27.740]And then if you're doing higher end sort of research stuff, Perplexity is a really good
[00:23:31.060]one for that.
[00:23:34.000]So yeah, the newsletters is doing things and just sort of reiterate some of the things
[00:23:38.800]that Jamie and Jordan just said is don't overthink your prompting.
[00:23:46.540]Just have them redo it.
[00:23:48.740]The more detail you can provide in the prompt before hitting enter, the more you're going
[00:23:52.780]to save on that piece.
[00:23:54.480]So I would definitely sort of follow those.
[00:23:57.980]And so here are the specific instructions.
[00:24:00.580]You can use it.
[00:24:03.740]Now in ChatGPT, I believe, if you want to do this, if you're going to continue to refine
[00:24:08.080]this for like an annual newsletter, you can actually tell it to remember your code and
[00:24:13.420]remember that the next time.
[00:24:16.180]If you can copy and paste that in a different place.
[00:24:19.200]And so there's different types of prompting.
[00:24:21.080]You can take whole classes.
[00:24:22.080]In fact, there's jobs on prompting.
[00:24:24.280]You can take a five-week class on AI prompting now, believe it or not.
[00:24:29.080]But this is some general things.
[00:24:30.100]Just making sure that you're sort of customizing it best you can, put those instructions in
[00:24:35.380]the prompt, and be specific.
[00:24:39.020]And then compare, tell it exactly what you're looking for, and don't be afraid to sort of
[00:24:45.540]fix it later.
[00:24:46.900]And so tell it your background.
[00:24:49.800]Like tell them, "I am the economic development director, and this is a presentation to my
[00:24:54.320]board."
[00:24:55.320]So give it your background in the prompt right away.
[00:24:59.620]And like I said, just sort of tailoring that for the different audiences.
[00:25:03.080]So I will put this PowerPoint in the chat, and then Jamie can share it with you guys
[00:25:09.200]separately.
[00:25:10.200]If you're interested in more things, again, for the research side of things, there are
[00:25:15.620]over a couple of different AIs that are kind of good at that one, but the one for research
[00:25:22.380]perplexity is a good one that you're going to pay for in those cases, but the best free
[00:25:27.680]ones for PowerPoint.
[00:25:29.140]PowerPoint to do presentations is Gamma and of course, ChatGPT.
[00:25:33.200]So, yeah, that's what I have.
[00:25:37.140]Thanks, Sean.
[00:25:39.380]I guess the ways I've used it, I've done outlines for presentations.
[00:25:47.240]I did a series of articles for the Kimbell paper and one week I was really stuck, so
[00:25:52.220]I asked it to help me brainstorm an article and then went through and edited it.
[00:25:58.660]Personal side, I create meal plans for the week, being very specific.
[00:26:02.460]I need meals 30 minutes or less using, I don't know, crock pot or whatever, using these ingredients
[00:26:10.360]and it can spit those out pretty quickly.
[00:26:13.620]Also Canva, if you use Canva, there's an AI function to create images and graphics, though
[00:26:20.000]I've had pretty mixed success with that.
[00:26:23.080]Sometimes they're not what you're looking for at all.
[00:26:28.180]And then I just wanted to check in with everyone else on the call because I know we're probably
[00:26:34.840]all at different levels.
[00:26:38.860]Was all of this way over your head?
[00:26:40.580]Was this really basic and you already know how to do all of this?
[00:26:45.740]What can we answer questions for you on?
[00:26:50.180]I have a lot of information I can send out by email, but I want to make sure we're kind
[00:26:54.980]of addressing where everyone's at.
[00:26:57.700]I use it quite a bit and I feel very comfortable with different formats.
[00:27:06.880]My thing always comes back to like, is this ethical?
[00:27:10.120]If I'm writing a letter of support for something or someone and I'm utilizing it, a lot of
[00:27:16.100]times I'll write everything and then I'll put it in Canva and do a rewrite.
[00:27:19.860]Rewrite this in a professional tone or a more persuasive manner, so it's still taking everything
[00:27:25.780]that I wrote.
[00:27:26.780]I don't know.
[00:27:27.220]How do you guys look at that or what are your thoughts about that?
[00:27:30.420]I do that a lot too, Misty.
[00:27:32.740]I'll write something out and then I just tell ChatGPT to reword it.
[00:27:36.740]I do that often and it does sound a lot better.
[00:27:41.780]Hi, Misty.
[00:27:44.100]Long time no see.
[00:27:46.500]We got to talk.
[00:27:47.220]No, I use it a lot and for all kinds of things.
[00:27:52.580]I use it definitely for work, for my gym and social media stuff.
[00:27:57.140]And I took a, in one of the women's life group things that we do, we talk about that and
[00:28:06.340]about how AI kind of freaks people out because there is, obviously there's the concern about
[00:28:12.900]plagiarism or how it's fake, artificial and really not real and how it seems disingenuous.
[00:28:22.020]But I think what's key is if your prompts are definitely, if you're
[00:28:27.060]telling it, this is what I'm trying to say and whatever, and being as specific as you can.
[00:28:32.500]And just like she said, using the prompts of tone and what the intent is and what you're
[00:28:38.260]trying to accomplish, it really does kind of freak you out because it kind of pulls
[00:28:43.840]what you're wanting to say and put it in there. So unless it spits something out there that is
[00:28:48.280]absolutely something you never would say, then pull it out of there. But it really is,
[00:28:53.500]you're telling it what to put in there. You're telling it what topic to cover.
[00:28:56.980]And pulling stuff that is just saving you the time of going and finding it. And it's not
[00:29:01.840]making something up with some of the data. It's pulling stuff that's there that you could readily
[00:29:07.620]find elsewhere. And if it's something that's competitive in nature or something that you
[00:29:14.400]want to make sure that if you have to acknowledge that some of it was generated from AI, I mean,
[00:29:19.760]you want to own up to it to a certain extent. But I would not be ashamed or hide any of that,
[00:29:26.900]that ends up doing that, because it does mention that. And the mayor just walked in behind me.
[00:29:31.460]So I'm good. I'm like, is that my screen? Give me about five minutes, and I'll just blank my
[00:29:40.060]screen and I'll be with you. But I'll just rattle through just some examples that I've used even
[00:29:47.180]just most recently, the city is going to be hitting pretty hard things on new system abatement.
[00:29:51.660]and and things that are there we wanted to give residents a heads up that we've got ordinances on
[00:29:57.250]on file that have not been being enforced it's coming so we did a i had uh staff look up the
[00:30:04.230]numbers make see here's what it is do do a summary of kind of a blurb of what that ordinance is
[00:30:09.610]and they got it ready and it's like okay so how do we format the letter and i said give it to me
[00:30:15.450]and i cut went in there and i and i told it this is what the intention is it's coming from a tone
[00:30:20.370]of we want to be um heads up this is a warning um but we don't want to come across as being the
[00:30:27.670]gestapo saying we're going to come after you and and confiscate all your kids blah blah blah but
[00:30:33.350]generate a letter for me that goes on the back of here and we want an opening paragraph this and
[00:30:38.550]then summarize the bottom and i had to go back and tell i said okay but then make sure the ordinance
[00:30:43.130]numbers are in numerical order and it did let me just copy and paste and put on the back of a thing
[00:30:48.330]and it was like perfect the mayor goes
[00:30:50.350]this is wonderful um so i've used it for that i use it to generate a community survey on on some
[00:30:55.530]of the the topics i definitely pulled things that have been standard on demographics and things that
[00:31:00.990]have been used across the state but then when there were areas that i know i wanted to ask but
[00:31:04.850]didn't know how um definitely said okay but i want to dive into something that's a little bit more
[00:31:10.390]um out there in terms of do people feel like they're welcome are they invited to participate
[00:31:17.790]in leadership roles or how do they as newcomers
[00:31:20.330]how does that look how do i explore that area and it spit out like six questions so i was able to
[00:31:25.430]incorporate that into the into the um survey i did a summary for land bank presentation that was
[00:31:31.170]able to bring it to whoever the target audience was um i've used it for like jordan said social
[00:31:36.950]media posts specific to my gym and chat gbt i do use the professional paid version and was able to
[00:31:44.630]do some graphics to add to it and i had to try several times to get the right hot santa um to
[00:31:50.310]my gym and said no no i like the one that was back there keep that one but add this one and
[00:31:54.390]could never get back to it but anyway those are the things that that i'm able to do um i do have
[00:31:59.790]a community engagement course that i was able to do and put into format for canva um that i'm able
[00:32:06.470]to market and sell and and things like that so it it truly um is is wonderful there's all kinds of
[00:32:15.010]things if you think there's something you need to put together and not sure how to do it there
[00:32:18.910]there's a way to do it and i think
[00:32:20.290]the question about whether it's ethical i have no guilt if if i'm even borderline on whether i
[00:32:26.170]think i should do it or not i just refine to make sure that what it's giving me is what i'm asking
[00:32:31.730]it to give based on what i know i need to produce and information that i know i have access to
[00:32:36.350]and i think i'm just able to justify if i have to defend it i'm able to do that michelle i might
[00:32:43.250]might have missed did you mention the um charts you created for the presentation i did do graphs
[00:32:50.270]i was trying to remember because you said oh you've got to mention that so when i got the
[00:32:55.030]the data back from the community survey i was able to off the excel spreadsheet take i mean i had to
[00:33:01.170]go through and do some of those um do the actual calculation on at some things which because it had
[00:33:08.950]a few things that were a little bit off but right and part of that had to do with the numbers of our
[00:33:14.050]responses when it was pretty much 50 50 when then when we when we did the chart thing it looked weird
[00:33:20.250]but i was able to i wanted to have variety in the from a visual standpoint of what it was creating
[00:33:27.210]so rather than just doing the standard that was in excel i was able to pull it and say give me a
[00:33:33.690]a graph that whatever and put it in and it would generate that a little bit to come back so
[00:33:39.890]um took some playing i mean it did give a little flexibility that way but it does help create
[00:33:46.890]things that in your head you know what you want to do but you're not quite sure how to do it
[00:33:50.230]and even if it doesn't get it right um the first time it at least helps figure out oh okay now i
[00:33:57.210]think i know how i can do it and so it does get you off the block of what you need to do and
[00:34:03.510]i love it it saves a lot of time
[00:34:06.190]another thing i would mention on writing um especially for that newspaper article i had
[00:34:13.950]it help me with and this was probably because i didn't adjust the tone when i was
[00:34:20.210]asking in my prompt i write my newspaper articles pretty informally because that's just my tone and
[00:34:28.750]it came out very academic so i definitely had to go through and adjust things and make it sound
[00:34:33.250]more like me talking use words that i would actually put in the article
[00:34:38.230]go ahead jim is it for i use it for non-work things too i helped my uh mother-in-law does
[00:34:47.610]like a halloween scavenger hunt every year
[00:34:50.190]and has every all the family at her house and she couldn't come up with some ideas this year
[00:34:54.370]so we just did we typed into chat gpt um i can't remember what oh beetlejuice we said please come
[00:35:01.870]up with a beetlejuice halloween scavenger hunt and it came up with an awesome scavenger hunt it
[00:35:06.830]was it was really cool so you can do it for that and then i've also used it so um i was made i've
[00:35:12.970]been making crepes lately like s'mores crepes and so i meta ai through facebook messenger has
[00:35:20.170]ai capabilities to do photos and so i said i took a photo of one of the crepes i made and i said
[00:35:25.830]please uh give it a western nebraska background and so then it had my crepe with the monument
[00:35:31.310]behind it it was awesome so i use it all the time for everything i recently just went to omaha for a
[00:35:44.370]nam conference non-profit association of the midlands and i had to chat gbt for like two
[00:35:50.150]years and while we were there we had a breakout session and it was a one hour long training on ai
[00:35:55.310]and i realized that i only knew 10 of what chat gbt could actually do so i i tell it a lot of
[00:36:05.470]things like take your time or learn my voice or write this like albert einstein or like different
[00:36:13.190]things like that and i just didn't even know that it could do things like i could take a
[00:36:20.130]where it's not adding and i'll and i'll find that like those i didn't know any of those
[00:36:24.270]things that i've been doing at gbt on my for two years now there is so much it can do go ahead
[00:36:32.130]well well i was just i think everybody's mentioning it the key to ai is to make sure
[00:36:37.830]you review it and aggregate to make sure it fits what you're trying to say
[00:36:43.550]because i've been on the other side of this uh with job applications that i see and i'm like
[00:36:50.110]oh wait a minute they cannot know all of this stuff about you know about the university of
[00:36:58.810]nebraska in all of our background and basically they put in what they wanted to answer the
[00:37:05.930]question that we asked them and it came out very much and you can you can identify it pretty quick
[00:37:12.170]it's like oh wait a minute no i don't think so uh and so just making sure you use it properly
[00:37:19.090]it goes back to the
[00:37:20.090]ethics thing is making sure you're using it properly and the other piece that we see from a
[00:37:26.350]more academic standpoint from the university is the right data so you have to give it the right
[00:37:33.290]data to get the right data out because it will pull whatever's out there and not all of it's
[00:37:40.470]accurate so and there's something i'll go ahead jordan no i just got a the same thing uh rob i
[00:37:50.070]um application from somebody that you could tell is ai because it that even they didn't even read
[00:37:55.030]it at all because it said i increased productivity by x x percent and i what so they didn't even
[00:38:01.610]change the numbers it just said x x percent so and i'm like sure you did so yeah people
[00:38:06.530]don't review it but yeah reviewing it is very very very important
[00:38:10.050]this is something the unl hasn't gotten into yet but um there is an extension bot where several
[00:38:20.050]universities have fed information into it and it's a more closed system and all of that information
[00:38:25.650]is peer-reviewed and accurate um so if you have especially agriculture questions that's a really
[00:38:33.130]good space to look or horticulture i'm not sure what else is in there i haven't taken a lot of
[00:38:38.750]time to review it but um there are those closed loop systems where you're making sure that there's
[00:38:46.010]only certain information available instead of just widespread across the
[00:38:50.030]i got what i would say though and jordan you touched on this for those of you working on
[00:38:55.330]grant applications you do that like one section of the application so the public input if he's
[00:39:00.930]done a recent survey you can say you can upload the survey results you know summarize how it
[00:39:06.590]relates to the the question in that grant part so you do things one section at a time and tell
[00:39:11.870]it not to answer until you've uploaded for rob's comment the right content so if you're doing it
[00:39:18.170]like piece by piece just like don't do that have
[00:39:20.010]it right the whole thing but do it section by section for for things like a grant application
[00:39:27.330]and then you provide the data sources and then review it of course very carefully yes that's
[00:39:32.810]true that's how i do stuff with grants and i just section by section another cool thing too is i so
[00:39:38.470]i we were doing some business attraction stuff and i had i had somebody reach out to me and they said
[00:39:42.970]you know why would we want to bring our company there you guys have no workforce and i didn't know
[00:39:49.990]how to respond to him because i'm like that's true you're right we don't um and so i went to
[00:39:54.570]chat gpt and i was like how do i respond to this and it gave me an awesome answer on how to respond
[00:39:59.070]to it um which was really cool you know like yeah we don't however um and it was a really cool
[00:40:05.690]response so it helps me a lot and stuff those situations as well and i find it really depends
[00:40:12.130]on the topic um if you are looking for something business focused there is a lot of content on the
[00:40:19.970]that information tends to be fairly accurate when you're trying to pull um data or just content in
[00:40:28.930]general um also i put a couple other things in the chat but i wanted to make sure everyone saw them
[00:40:35.950]this doesn't apply or affect most of us in the public realm but if you're working with businesses
[00:40:41.470]that have proprietary content make sure to let them know if they put this into especially the
[00:40:47.050]free version of these chat gpt
[00:40:49.950]or the other models that information is going to be distributed again then out on the internet so
[00:40:55.550]they don't want to put anything that they don't want public in there um and then accuracy
[00:41:02.890]research says they think there's about a three to five percent hallucination rate where it just
[00:41:09.750]makes things up but those are mostly on topics that don't have a lot of information out there
[00:41:14.530]on the internet so um just be kind of cautious what you're looking for and
[00:41:19.930]yeah it just wants to fulfill its instructions so that's why it makes things up if it doesn't know
[00:41:26.110]i've had it do basic math wrong before too like it was basic basic math and it did it wrong and
[00:41:34.370]so it was a good thing that i checked it but yeah it was wrong it was for a grant and it was
[00:41:38.610]yeah like something about how many hours like in kind match for our hours worked
[00:41:44.430]you know pay times hours times what month or something like that and it was way wrong
[00:41:49.910]but yes make sure to verify and review everything
[00:41:54.070]other thoughts or questions
[00:41:59.210]go ahead i have a quick question um i use chat gpt the most well the only thing i use
[00:42:14.610]and um i will say if you guys don't use it for social media plans do that
[00:42:19.890]it's very easy and the only way that i can like manage that part um but what i was going to ask
[00:42:28.270]is like i have different like tabs or conversations per topics but then if i have like a press release
[00:42:34.150]i always go back to like that press release like kind of tab just because i'm not sure how the
[00:42:39.570]memory works um but i guess i was curious how other people maybe organize um their chat gpt
[00:42:49.870]i'll do like yeah if i'm going back to an old topic i go find that tab and use that again but
[00:42:55.850]for the most part i i know it probably knows everything already that i've been putting into it
[00:42:59.770]but i always do what i prompt like every time i say um please create a job description for
[00:43:05.610]twin cities development a regional economic development organization in western nebraska
[00:43:09.710]um you know so i i typically will give it that information every time
[00:43:13.670]i don't know if i have to i probably don't but i do i might be wrong but my
[00:43:19.850]understanding is on the free version it doesn't necessarily save your information but the paid
[00:43:25.690]one you can get it to unless like in the free one you have those tabs go ahead chaselyn
[00:43:31.750]i copy and paste every single thing from my chat gbt into my canva because i use canva for
[00:43:38.470]literally everything and so i make different project file folders inside my canva with all
[00:43:43.290]of my chat gbt prompts so i have like my newsletter i have social media i have um
[00:43:49.830]where i data track actually hannah taught me how to get data track so there's a whole bunch of
[00:43:54.710]different um project folders inside of my canva so it's using more than one app but then i don't
[00:44:01.150]feel the need to um again if i'm also asking that same question i just copy and paste it
[00:44:05.650]back for my canva with a little bit more information thanks jasmine
[00:44:11.450]um i was just curious if anyone knows of conversations going on
[00:44:19.810]about how our workforce will be affected by ai and how we're pivoting as far as training goes for
[00:44:27.130]employees and what they're going to need to know to be successful in the future and
[00:44:32.790]retain jobs um i have a friend named andrea wenberg who who um is a consultant and has a
[00:44:40.210]company called voice of influence and i had the opportunity to have dinner with her and
[00:44:44.910]it's pretty interesting hearing some of her insights into
[00:44:49.790]how ai um will be affecting companies so i just just curious if you all know of how maybe the
[00:44:57.050]university of nebraska is considering training our workforce for this and different ways
[00:45:04.170]i guess of thinking about our jobs i think it's a pretty big
[00:45:08.310]pretty big shift in how we work and function
[00:45:11.970]i think it'll affect white collar jobs
[00:45:19.770]more um obviously marketing we've all talked about social media
[00:45:23.490]writing kind of hit or miss you still have to be able to identify what's good writing but
[00:45:30.030]from what i've seen emily
[00:45:35.310]i don't know i don't know how long it'll take to make this shift for one thing
[00:45:40.990]we have talked in rpn about doing training but we don't know if we have the time and capacity to do
[00:45:49.050]it right now
[00:45:49.750]we applied for a grant we started to apply for a grant to hire more people to help and then
[00:45:55.670]backed out at the last minute so i haven't heard where that's moving forward
[00:46:00.010]but if you definitely think it's a need and i will keep pushing on that and at least we can
[00:46:08.730]develop some in our regions where we just do small presentations rather than kind of doing
[00:46:13.870]it as a statewide effort because i know extension in other states has done that
[00:46:19.730]i have a really good um powerpoints from the extension foundation that i'll send out with
[00:46:26.710]our notes that's just really basics on ai and prompting but i think it's really helpful
[00:46:33.270]that'd be great i you know i just can't help but wonder if there's a little bit of an opportunity
[00:46:39.090]here to to uh to get ahead on this but yet everything's moving so quickly i think that's
[00:46:49.710]really changing our lives probably in ways we don't even understand quite yet but you know what
[00:46:54.470]does that look like and my husband's he works as an attorney and um he already has uh an ai system
[00:47:03.010]where i think he's going to be able to function with one less employee um and so that's one less
[00:47:10.070]job in north platte um you know good or bad i don't know
[00:47:15.490]you
[00:47:15.890]i think
[00:47:19.690]a lot too with education and higher education and in our classrooms and even as you know a
[00:47:26.950]lifelong learner like just that we have to teach our kids how to use it and how to how to be you
[00:47:33.230]know in it but also where's the academic integrity and where do those lines so have any of you in
[00:47:38.250]higher ed like what are your thoughts on those
[00:47:40.110]i i haven't seen as many yet this semester but last year i was seeing a lot of emails through
[00:47:49.170]the university
[00:47:49.670]system about um students turning in ai written work and how they were going to handle that
[00:47:57.270]and i think there are some programs where they can do checks to see if they think it was pulled
[00:48:02.570]from online but i'm not sure what the most recent stance is rob yeah there's a lot of conversations
[00:48:12.090]going across upper higher education administration on how how do we deal with it what you know
[00:48:19.650]what does it mean it's moving so fast that trying to get on top of it is pretty challenging
[00:48:26.510]quite frankly and so i think there's going to continually be conversations about the ethics
[00:48:32.830]about you know plagiarism there's going to be constant challenges with that but they're also
[00:48:38.870]pushing a lot of on-campus folks to really look at some of these tools to identify ai work in and so
[00:48:48.470]the conversations
[00:48:49.630]are there i don't think we have a official stance but from an administration standpoint i see
[00:48:56.470]emails come across from our standpoint that the conversations are there it's just how do we
[00:49:02.110]continually deal with this in a fast-moving environment so and misty as you said we need
[00:49:10.270]to be teaching students to use these tools responsibly obviously they're time savers
[00:49:15.230]they're something that we should be using when it makes sense to you
[00:49:19.610]but i'm not sure how many of the professors either know what tools are out there and how
[00:49:25.810]they can be used so who is teaching that information there's definitely some gaps
[00:49:31.890]and if extension was to start doing trainings
[00:49:36.610]i don't know how well we'd be able to keep up as the technology changes either
[00:49:42.050]the students may outpace us pretty quickly on what we know but we'll just have to constantly be
[00:49:49.590]Anthony go ahead yeah on the subject of trainings i do as a part of my role here with twin cities
[00:49:59.690]development put some business trainings out there on our website and so i work with the sba and
[00:50:05.910]trying to get some different trainings for entrepreneurs and i have seen an increase in
[00:50:11.590]the ai trainings that are being offered to entrepreneurs so i definitely made a effort
[00:50:17.410]to try to put that out there for our
[00:50:19.570]panhandle business owners to be able to take advantage of it some of the subjects that i've
[00:50:26.210]seen here over the past couple months is you know practical ways to use ai tools to promote
[00:50:31.930]your online presence ar mark ai marketing techniques using chat gpt and leveraging ai
[00:50:41.430]in your business so definitely a fast moving environment out there when it comes to ai but
[00:50:49.550]i think you know trying to take a proactive approach with some of this stuff and of course
[00:50:53.650]some of our business owners are apprehensive to technology right now as it is um but i think
[00:51:00.230]trying to be out there be proactive giving them just some extra tools and whatnot is is going to
[00:51:04.710]be helpful um but yeah just if you guys are looking for an additional resource to reference
[00:51:09.430]on trainings or you have entrepreneurs out there that are looking for some resources
[00:51:13.690]check out our tcd business trainings website um got some good stuff out there
[00:51:19.530]thanks anthony and there are i don't know how many free um ai trainings there are online just
[00:51:29.810]general ones i've definitely seen paid ones through coursera and on their email list and
[00:51:35.250]they have a lot of trainings available especially for people who are interested in more of the tech
[00:51:41.630]side coding and things like that how to use ai for coding um so there are lots of opportunities
[00:51:49.510]you just have to kind of sort through them and see what is the best fit
[00:51:54.730]other thoughts or questions any other tools anyone has used or is curious about
[00:52:04.270]i keep hearing about microsoft copilot it's fairly new i haven't used it yet but it's supposed
[00:52:12.670]to be helpful for powerpoint presentations as well or just integrating everything you already
[00:52:18.050]have under microsoft
[00:52:19.490]thinking sometimes you're a pain in the ass though too because
[00:52:34.730]sometimes those copilot things or whatever will just pop up and be in your face when you really
[00:52:40.090]just don't even want them there so any suggestions on that it's also helpful
[00:52:49.470]i have noticed that if i put a whole bunch of information like a survey information in
[00:53:03.510]and i'm like um narrow down to like the top topics or see trending data it'll somehow figure out how
[00:53:11.030]to get every single piece of information like it doesn't really segregate down really well
[00:53:16.910]so then you kind of have to go through its list and match okay
[00:53:19.450]that could go in this category that can match up here and so just kind of looking at you know just
[00:53:24.970]sometimes it takes me longer to edit than it does just if i would have just wrote it out on your own
[00:53:32.730]one thing this suggested was if you need a really long um
[00:53:43.690]document or piece of information sometimes it works best to do it
[00:53:49.430]in chunks like if you're writing a story ask it to write an introduction
[00:53:53.350]and then continue on piece by piece or an essay try paragraph by paragraph
[00:54:00.070]also if you put spaces between your sentences but if you hit enter it'll send it so you have to do
[00:54:11.670]what does it say shift enter in chat gpt and that'll put it down the line and it will read it
[00:54:19.410]more easily if it's kind of separated like that
[00:54:21.950]this powerpoint i'll send out also has information on how to
[00:54:29.650]cite ai as a source if you're writing like a paper report class
[00:54:35.570]i wanted to go over
[00:54:44.990]i still would like to find a way to
[00:54:49.390]summarize my calendar to help with my annual report
[00:54:53.510]and i haven't played with co-pilot co-pilot might be a way to do that
[00:54:58.110]rob shaking his head
[00:54:59.810]a lot of information to go through i have to read all those so
[00:55:08.650]trying to make it sound good can you export your calendar though are you able to export if
[00:55:19.370]you do the export and then copy and paste whatever it exports into that and have it summarized
[00:55:23.710]i need to play around with it that's part of the problem i just haven't had time to play with it
[00:55:31.470]like i want to the scary part is when you start having conversations with whatever that thing is
[00:55:37.490]back there because there are like my whole hot santa incident it's like i'll get going it's like
[00:55:43.130]okay no i told you i said you know you had that part right but let's go back a little bit no did
[00:55:47.870]i not tell you i'm
[00:55:49.350]mean or oh that's really good i didn't think about that and there are times that i get about three or
[00:55:54.370]four deep and i'm like michelle you need to back away because i'm going to get sucked into some
[00:56:00.130]portal and not be able to get out because i'm going to be just locked in but but but that is
[00:56:05.150]a way that you can kind of come through or say you know what what you have here oh a silver what
[00:56:10.790]you call it silver summit presentation i did that i said this is great and it and it covers the
[00:56:15.410]topic perfectly but it's a little bit long i need you to highlight and focus a little bit
[00:56:19.330]more on this area and bring this one to a shorter thing or connect it whatever and now go again and
[00:56:24.490]then it'll it'll redo it so so sometimes editing is just about telling it this is good this is good
[00:56:31.290]and connect it here but now redo it and then not having to necessarily do it manually after the
[00:56:36.410]fact too when i do my meal plans i tell it thank you every week which is silly but keeps it happy
[00:56:45.150]i'm really polite with my chat gpt i'm like please i'm like
[00:56:49.310]please create a job description i don't just tell it to i'm very nice
[00:56:52.810]oh i am too until the hot santa that i wanted disappears and i can't get him back and then i've
[00:56:58.950]got a problem other thoughts i will send out information it may take me a little bit to put
[00:57:14.070]together everything i'll send out some links to some of the models i know of and
[00:57:19.290]i know i'm missing a lot because there are way more new ones out there um and some of the ethics
[00:57:26.630]and security information as well as what we talked about today
[00:57:30.030]and the powerpoint that sean sent and the powerpoint i have
[00:57:35.210]anything else that would be helpful for me to share when i send out resources
[00:57:40.270]and if you would like us to share any other resources
[00:57:49.270]um extension to try to host a training in your community or with a specific
[00:57:54.110]group let me know and we can put something together
[00:57:57.070]i can at least base it off of this extension foundation presentation and
[00:58:03.530]i'll just adapt as needed
[00:58:05.130]announcements anyone wants to make for your community your organization
[00:58:13.950]i have an announcement from rpn we may
[00:58:19.250]well emily probably knows better than i do we may change the dates of cec
[00:58:24.110]because there's a conflict with another um conference but i don't know if it's been decided
[00:58:31.550]yet okay
[00:58:34.170]um it's the maybe let's see who do we have on
[00:58:41.390]castling um only chamber person on it's a chamber conference
[00:58:49.230]that would be a conflict so i don't know if that's something where you would go to the
[00:58:54.030]chamber conference rather than the connecting entrepreneurial communities conference
[00:58:59.170]yeah i believe it's the mace conference is what it called and now i'm
[00:59:03.190]looking to see what that acronym means but it's basically like uh where is it
[00:59:10.250]yeah it's for chamber leaders and i believe it's in like sioux city or something like that so
[00:59:19.210]midwest association of chamber executives thank you sean perfect
[00:59:23.930]hey thank you everyone for joining us thanks for your input
[00:59:32.470]i will try out some of the things you suggested
[00:59:35.970]have a good afternoon thanks bye everybody bye

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