Real AI: Fannie Mae embraces CV, Claude.ai gets better, AI facts and top headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 15 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. Fannie Mae embraces computer vision Craig Rowe at Inman News did a solid job with his recent piece on Fannie Mae embracing AI and computer vision or CV. It’s important because when Fannie Mae makes a move, the mortgage industry follows. In June, Fannie Mae announced the use of "image recognition" to detect incorrect quality and [...]

Real AI: Unlocking real estate data, ChatGPT for real estate intel, 5 facts and AI headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 14 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. Using AI to unlock real estate data Content creation continues to dominate how real estate professionals use AI. AI helps agents create better blogs, website content, flyers, social posts, listing descriptions, property photos, marketing ideas, business plans, video scripts, and more. Using AI to perfect content has become part of many real estate agents' workflow in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]