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Real AI: AI Turbo-powered, new AI research and top AI headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 13 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. GPT-4 Turbo: What real estate pros need to know Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, during its first in-person developer event, launched a more powerful AI model dubbed GPT-4 Turbo, currently in Beta, among other advances. What will these AI improvements do? GPT-4 Turbo is said to be a smarter model than ChatGPT-4. It will let [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:38:33-07:00November 17th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, MLS, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Real AI: AI and driverless cars (or not), AI fast facts and top AI headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 12 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. AI and driverless cars: Is AI failing the trust test? Cruise, the autonomous taxi firm backed by GM, is in trouble, The Hustle reports. This is despite the announcement by GM a couple of weeks ago that it is partnering with Honda to launch its robotaxi service in Japan by 2026. Cruise also plans to expand [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:38:02-07:00November 10th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|0 Comments
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Real AI: AI in your pocket, follow the (AI) money, fast facts and top headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 11 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. Cloudless AI Chip titan Qualcomm held its annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui (we gotta get on that list), advancing the cloudless generative AI movement. Qualcomm envisions AI in your pocket: totally contained on your smartphone, unchained from the Cloud. On-device AI is in its infancy, but with its potential realized (we can dream, right?), we think [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:37:17-07:00November 3rd, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments
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Real AI: 2024 The Year of AI, AI fast facts and top headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 10 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. 2024: The Year of AI The accelerated growth we are seeing and experiencing in artificial intelligence continues to be unlike any other game-changing technology ever. When it comes to Generative AI and Large Language Models, it’s just a baby about to turn into a teenager. If you think AI in 2023 has been incredible, just wait [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:36:43-07:00October 27th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Industry Observations, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|0 Comments
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Real AI: I fought the bot (and the bot won), AI fast facts and top headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 9 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. I fought the bot, and the bot won When AI works, it’s incredible, surprising, and often has me in awe of what it can do. When AI doesn't work, it is an absolute nightmare experience. Yesterday, I called FedEx for help on a missing package – first, a little context. For decades, FedEx was my go-to [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:33:03-07:00October 20th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments
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Real AI: AI Wasteland, the Song, Headlines and Five Fast Facts

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 8 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. AI Wasteland Is AI a lie? My greatest fear, fueled by the rabid hyperbole created by AI and ignited by its unmatched trajectory, is that we make the same mistake with this tech that we have with so many others. The great overpromise and underdeliver. It won't derail AI, but it could certainly arm its resistors. [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:35:20-07:00October 13th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments
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Real AI: Wearable AI, Canva Masters Image Generation, and 5 New AI Facts

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 7 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. AI you can wear AI is likely to dominate your holiday shopping. And not just providing you scary-accurate recommendations on Amazon. A blitz of AI wearables is underway, according to news site Axios. Here are just a few early notables: Smart Glasses: Ray-Ban and Meta have teamed up with a new line of smart glasses. Talk [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:31:11-07:00October 6th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Virtual Real Estate|0 Comments
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Real AI: Legal minefield, 5 Facts and AI Meme of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 6 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. AI is creating a legal minefield While the Federal government and dozens of states scurry to create AI legislation, AI cases are already filling our courts. Among the most notable lawsuits: Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI. Visual artists in a proposed class-action lawsuit [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:29:52-07:00September 29th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Legal in Real Estate, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments
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Remembering LA Times reporter Dave Myers

The caller ID on my cell displayed the name of a friend of 30+ years who calls randomly, and I always answer. This time, the news was unfortunately sad. A friend and business colleague we had known for decades had passed away. Dave Myers, former real estate reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died at 62 years young. Another dear reporter friend, Ralph Bivins, editor of Realty News Report, noted that Dave shared in Pulitzer Prize wins for team coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Dave Myers with NAREE friends on a trip to Napa [...]

By |2023-10-13T11:39:24-07:00September 25th, 2023|Industry Observations, News|5 Comments
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Real AI: MBAs vs. ChatGPT, NYT and DALL-E 3, and Crazy-Scary Deepfakes

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 5 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. Innovation Challenge: MBA students vs. ChatGPT – Who wins? The Wall Street Journal earlier this month featured a terrific story by Christian Terwiesch and Karl Urich, testing how good AI is at creating new ideas. Terwiesch and Ulrich are professors of operations, information and decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Their hypothesis: that when [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:29:07-07:00September 22nd, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments
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Real AI: Green Catch-22, AI Webinar, and The Creator (ugh)

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 4 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. AI and the Green Catch-22 Among the biggest risks that AI faces on its trajectory to impact nearly every aspect of our daily lives before we know it is the Green Catch-22. The paradox: On the positive side, AI has the potential to tackle the environmental impact of humans, from dramatically improving energy efficiency and reducing [...]

By |2024-03-18T12:26:49-07:00September 15th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Webinars|0 Comments
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AI tied to CRMs is the first big wave

Do you hear that buzz? AI this, AI that? There is a lot of activity swirling around artificial intelligence, but also a lot of questionable noise and hyperbole mixed in with a few scare tactics. Some real estate agents may be wondering if this is just another Web3-NFT-cryptocurrency craze thing that will disappear if they ignore it. The answer from nearly every leading Tech CEO is a resounding – no! But agents are correct. AI is not going to replace them. However, real estate agents who don’t use AI are more likely to be replaced by agents who do. And [...]

By |2023-09-13T09:06:27-07:00September 13th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments
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