For the past few months, APS has been building its very own AI Chatbot (using OpenAI). This AI Assistant has only one job: Learn from public EAS documents and the CEQR TM to answer questions about environmental review. PizzaHut has a chatbot why shouldn't NYC have one for CEQR?
Please email me for access if you're interested in taking it for a spin! (Trying to keep cost down by doing a limited release...) Also see our video demo: https://www.alumniplanning.com/ceqr-ai?pgid=lux1xhj4-1d8670fb-ac09-425a-9978-35ea91adadd7
We've named our chatbot EASplorer I. Other top contenders were: CEQRSeeker and ERIC (Env. Reporting Informational Chatbot). Maybe we should have had a naming contest?
Chatbot Name?
EASplorer
CEQRSeeker
ERIC (Env. Reporting Informational Chatbot)
For us at APS we see two use-cases for our chat bot. First, for members of the public or elected officials who can ask general questions about the environmental review process, projects in their neighborhood or district, or specific EASs. Second, for preparers of EASs to gain the advantage of "institutional knowledge" of past EASs.
Here's me pretending to be a Brooklynite concerned about shadows...



We actively use EASplorer already...everyone who makes EASs knows how invaluable it is to have someone in the office they can turn to ask, "have we done this before?" or "isn't there a project we did x years ago down the block?"


Naming our chatbot EASplorer I, implies the creation of EASplorer II. What does V2 look like? For starters it contains a lot more data... any study or report referenced in an EAS (i.e. SCA Data, Population FactFinder Data, etc.), EIS documents (not included in this version), and minutes from public meetings.
There's even a roadmap for EASplorer III, incorporating the chatbot into a website, that maps CEQR projects, capital improvements, new as of right construction etc.
Small loan of $1M anyone?
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