Bringing New Life to Our Hometowns with AI

Recently I visited my dad and mom and brother, and they live in a small town in the Midwest. And my dad was talking about how the city, it's just not what it used to be. And I think in situations like that, where people have been in this specific place for a really long time, it's easy to see the problems, but not really see what the solutions might be. You feel like you've done the same things again and again. The path forward isn't clear. You need more money to make things happen. So how do you get more money? Like that kind of stuff? And so we use ChatGPT to help us determine a path for the city that would help them be able to bring in more people and fix up the city as a result. Now, this is a small town, it's quiet. This would be the perfect place for remote workers who want peace and quiet, maybe who are introverted introverts who have a family that want to go to where there's good schools and they want affordable housing, affordable cost of living. Some of the houses there, like one bedroom, one bath, $25,000. That's it. Like, not $25,000 down payment, $25,000 total. And so this could be a really excellent place for, like I said, families who are remote and who want a quiet place to live where their kids will get great education. And nobody knows it because the marketing for that town is just not good at all. And which is, I think that's probably pretty typical of a lot of towns. We were looking at the difference between that and a town near us, Mount Dora, which has around the same amount of people. But it's just people come from all over to visit Mount Dora. It's really a really cute place. They have some hiking and it's just a really nice spot. But the thing is, it's not that different from the town that my folks live in. It's just a significantly better marketing. And so we asked ChatGPT to tell us what we needed to do to make it a thriving town once again and then give us a plan for how we can make that happen. So it did that, gave us a plan, and then we asked it for dates and deadlines, what happens and when, and also for a marketing plan as well. And so I. Who's selling? My dad. I'm not sure if I have time right now, but if I had time, I'd love to just do the marketing for the town and help it come back to its former glory. But even if I didn't have time because of ChatGPT, there's everything can just happen so much faster. So you could have someone that has a little bit of know how with Instagram, with Facebook, with TikTok, they could start marketing that with the marketing plan that ChatGPT came up with for us. And I see one of the things my dad and I were talking about was how AI is going to replace a lot of jobs. And I 100% believe that it will. And I think it's going to replace a lot of jobs, unfortunately. But fortunately, I also think it's going to create a lot of jobs too. It's going to create, I think, way more jobs than it's going to deplete. And there's a lot of good that can come from this. And I think this is an example of the good that could come from this. A town that is maybe not thriving now could begin to thrive again with some better marketing, with some changes, with. It's not gonna happen overnight, but within the next five to 10 years. I think that the plan that it gave us is solid. And I wanna encourage you to start thinking of how you can use chat GPT outside the box. Not just I can use it for marketing, I can use it for business. We're using this for a plan to help a town revitalize. And so the biggest limitation, I've said this before, the biggest limitation to how AI can help you is your imagination. And so if you're willing to start asking yourself, how can AI help me with this, you're going to find a lot more areas in which AI can be a support to you. That's it for today. My name is Brittany Long. We'll talk to you soon.