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Real AI: AI agents are the next big thing, AI and the Big Apple, fast facts, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Issue 18 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 weekly. AI agents are the next big thing This week, Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, tells MIT Technology Review that AI agents are poised to become AI's killer app. Compared to what these new AI Agents will do, ChatGPT-4 will look pretty dumb, Altman says. What is the difference between an AI chatbot and an AI agent? Think of an AI chatbot [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:44:50-07:00May 3rd, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Industry Observations, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI agents are the next big thing, AI and the Big Apple, fast facts, and AI quote of the week

What’s the Best Way to Announce Leadership Changes?

The real estate industry is undergoing massive transition in leadership. Top executives who have run major real estate brokerages, Associations and MLSs for decades are heading for retirement. Moreover, at the beginning of any new year comes a flurry of new leadership announcements.

By |2024-04-29T08:59:37-07:00April 28th, 2024|Communications and PR, Main category|Comments Off on What’s the Best Way to Announce Leadership Changes?

Real AI: Perfecting your prompts, AI Newsbytes, headlines, fast facts, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Issue 17  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 weekly. Better AI: Perfecting your prompts When working with AI chatbots, there's one golden rule: garbage in, garbage out. If you feed your bot ambiguous or half-baked prompts, you’ll get suspect results. The key to AI mastery lies in crafting prompts that are incredibly specific and detailed so that the output can't help but shine. Think of it like ordering at [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:46:46-07:00April 26th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on Real AI: Perfecting your prompts, AI Newsbytes, headlines, fast facts, and AI quote of the week

Real AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly side of AI, headlines, fast facts, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 16 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 weekly. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly side of AI The title of this 1966 Western film provides a fitting description of this week's AI developments. First, the Good. Who would have thought that using AI to create art could be a good thing? Case in point: Former New Orleans Saints artist and ALS activist Steve Gleason is using AI [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:49:05-07:00April 19th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on Real AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly side of AI, headlines, fast facts, and AI quote of the week

Real AI: AI will make the big, bigger, latest AI trends, headlines, fast facts and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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 weekly. AI will make the big, bigger Today, AI is in the business news headlines everywhere you look. Within 12 hours this week, OpenAI, Google, and Meta announced new AI versions. The French AI startup Mistral also released its latest version. Meta is launching its third version of Llama. Google released Gemini Pro 1.5 at Google Next 24. OpenAI issued its final [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:52:07-07:00April 12th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: AI will make the big, bigger, latest AI trends, headlines, fast facts and AI Quote of the Week

Real AI: Chatting with the ChatGPT app, real estate agents and Chatbot privacy dilemma, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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 weekly. Chatting with the ChatGPT app A splash screen inside my ChatGPT app on my iPhone 14 recently popped up, inviting me to select a "voice." Its prompt was that I could converse with ChatGPT rather than a text search. So, I went into Settings, which is a little tricky to find. First, go to the top left of the screen [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:53:52-07:00April 5th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: Chatting with the ChatGPT app, real estate agents and Chatbot privacy dilemma, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

Real AI: AI’s sophomore slump, 5 great ChatGPT party tricks, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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 weekly. Welcome to AI’s sophomore slump Earlier this week, the headlines warned, "It's not just you: ChatGPT is down for many worldwide.” For those who rely on ChatGPT for work assistance, having your AI offline can be frightful. It's sort of like misplacing your iPhone: you go into a panic until it is found. How many times do you refresh your [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:55:10-07:00March 29th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI’s sophomore slump, 5 great ChatGPT party tricks, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

Real AI: Is AI another boys’ club? Ode to Otter, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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 weekly. Does AI have a gender problem? As a long-time advocate of gender parity, an email in my inbox this week from Laura Meli with Girls Who Code asked this question as its subject line: “Is AI another boys’ club?” The email immediately notes that technological innovation and progress demand diverse perspectives, adding, “This is especially true in the field of [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:58:33-07:00March 22nd, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: Is AI another boys’ club? Ode to Otter, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

Real AI: How current are the Chatbots, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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 weekly. How current are the Chatbots ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Pi? A client recently asked what seemed to be a pretty straightforward question about AI chatbots. “What is the most accurate and up-to-date AI engine available for content?” The truth is there is no easy answer to this question. First, the leading Chatbots continually improve through iteration and new training data. [...]

By |2024-05-10T11:39:18-07:00March 15th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: How current are the Chatbots, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

Real AI: AI ads are coming, Say hi to Pi, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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 weekly. AI ads are coming My first journalism boss was the late, great Jeffery Weiss, managing editor at the Miami Hurricane, our University of Miami newspaper that was printed at the Miami Herald back in the day. Jeffery had two signs on his desk – a desk that was stacked with piles of papers a foot high covering the entire top [...]

By |2024-05-10T11:42:32-07:00March 8th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, SEO, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: AI ads are coming, Say hi to Pi, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

Real AI: Why manners matter with ChatGPT, CoreLogic looks at what’s next, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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.  Why manners matter with ChatGPT Since I (Kevin) started my paid ChatGPT subscription the day after Valentine's Day last year (Feb. 15, 2023), I've been using ChatGPT in some way almost daily. Yesterday, I uploaded a PDF of a menu in French and received a translation in English that was nearly perfect. One of the best [...]

By |2024-05-10T11:46:31-07:00March 1st, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: Why manners matter with ChatGPT, CoreLogic looks at what’s next, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

Real AI: The coming AI real estate video revolution, A look at Sora, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 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. Will AI fix the real estate video conundrum? Since the debut of YouTube in 2005, real estate agents have been inundated with the message that video is perhaps the single most powerful marketing tool available. Since then, as a recent review of a video platform by Inman's Craig Rowe points out, the adoption of video as [...]

By |2024-05-13T13:49:43-07:00February 23rd, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Video|Comments Off on Real AI: The coming AI real estate video revolution, A look at Sora, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week