By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 2
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Is AGI coming in 2025?
This week’s AI buzz is around AGI – not Adjusted Gross Income but Artificial General Intelligence.
The head of the company that gave us ChatGPT, OpenAI, wrote in his blog entitled “Reflections” :
“We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” adding, “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies.”
The maker of one of the most pervasive AI products in the world – ChatGPT – is saying the delivery of superintelligence is a lot closer than anyone believed was possible a year ago.
AGI 101
In theory, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) can understand, learn, and perform intellectual tasks that match or exceed that of humans for any task. Unlike today’s AI systems, which are specialized and excel at specific tasks such as recommending properties, analyzing data, or generating content, AGI can adapt to new tasks and environments as it learns on its own.
Today’s AI focuses on a specific task and cannot handle tasks outside its initial programming. AGI can handle multiple tasks, including unfamiliar ones, with minimal guidance, making it behave more like a human.
Big picture: AGI could be used to solve highly complex and multifaceted problems like homelessness and climate change. For the real estate industry, the potential impact could be massive, as AGI has the ability to automate high-level decision-making and strategic planning.
Firms working to create AGI, like OpenAI, promise its development will enhance collaboration between humans and machines – an actualization of John Nasbit’s “high-tech, high-touch” philosophy.
AGI will also require global regulation to ensure that proper guardrails and risk management are in place. Even Sam Altman told Bloomberg this would be necessary, saying while global regulation is hard, “I think it could help make (AGI) safe.”
Revisiting Claude AI
ChatGPT may be the current chatbot champ, but Claude AI by Anthropic is chomping at its heels.
Two former OpenAI researchers founded Anthropic, and Google (Alphabet), Salesforce, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Tiger Global Management are lead investors.
Like ChatGPT, we have been long-time subscribers to Claude. Mid-last year, it regularly outperformed the content skills of ChatGPT. But ChatGPT appeared to surpass Claude significantly in our practical use tests for content creation and ideation, and for a while, we only used Claude occasionally.
At the time, there were two major downsides: it didn’t accept uploading different document types and access the internet live to keep current as its training end date is April 2024.
In October, Claude added the ability to let you upload files. It can now read Excel files, Word docs, PDFs, and more, just like ChatGPT. But it still can’t access the internet live like Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.
But today, Claude appears to have a significant advantage over ChatGPT.
Recently, we compared Claude to ChatGPT for a major data-crunching project. Claude demolished ChatGPT when it came to handling large datasets efficiently. Claude can process and analyze complex survey data, for example, without providing it in chunks, as we do with ChatGPT.
We understand that the new ChatGPT Pro version at $200 a month excels at these data tasks, but that’s ten times more than we pay for Claude to give us the data analysis and insight we need.
While Claude still lags in content creation and ideation capabilities compared to ChatGPT 4o Teams, its data prowess is delightful.
AI Facts + Stats
- 84% of business organizations stated they moved an AI-based use case from concept to launch within six months – Google
- 55% of marketers surveyed view Generative AI as a leading consumer trend – MarTech
- 65% of client support leaders believe combining Generative AI with Conversational AI will boost buyer satisfaction – IBM
- 41% of C-level specialists aim to revamp internal processes with AI within the next five years – Microsoft
- 46% of companies nationwide admitted to using AI to control costs – Scale
Source: Master of Code Global (-Korey)
AI Headlines
How AI in Real Estate is Catalyzing a Paradigm Shift – 16 Applications and Real-World Examples | 1/3/25 Appinventiv
The AI solutions that are redefining real estate success through lead generation, virtual staging, property search, and much more.
AI’s emergence opens new real estate frontiers | 1/7/25 CoStar
Why AI firms are spending millions on real estate.
VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos | 1/9/25 The Verge
VideoLAN shows off its ability to automatically generate and translate subtitles in more than 100 languages.
How AI will impact your real estate marketing in 2025 and beyond | 1/9/25 Realtor.com
Real estate agents need to know about leveraging AI tools to help maximize their marketing.
36 of the best AI courses you can take online for free | 1/9/25 Mashable
Udemy is providing dozens of courses for learning about how to get the most out of AI in 2025.
(-Korey)
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