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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 |2024-05-14T14:48:22-07:00October 27th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Industry Observations, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: 2024 The Year of AI, AI fast facts and top headlines

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 |2024-05-15T14:45:04-07:00October 20th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Broker-Agent Information, Clients, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: I fought the bot (and the bot won), AI fast facts and top headlines

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 |2024-05-15T14:45:55-07:00October 13th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI Wasteland, the Song, Headlines and Five Fast Facts

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 |2024-05-15T14:47:03-07:00October 6th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Virtual Real Estate|Comments Off on Real AI: Wearable AI, Canva Masters Image Generation, and 5 New AI Facts

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 |2024-05-15T14:49:54-07:00September 29th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Legal in Real Estate, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: Legal minefield, 5 Facts and AI Meme of the week

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|6 Comments

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 |2024-05-15T14:50:35-07:00September 22nd, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: MBAs vs. ChatGPT, NYT and DALL-E 3, and Crazy-Scary Deepfakes

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 |2024-05-15T14:52:03-07:00September 15th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Webinars|Comments Off on Real AI: Green Catch-22, AI Webinar, and The Creator (ugh)

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|Comments Off on AI tied to CRMs is the first big wave

Real AI: $300 billion, Digital Twins and Musk says he’s an idiot

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 3 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 Revive Vision AI is a game-changing use of AI Pre-sale renovation leader Revive kicked off their biggest product release – Revive Vision AI – with a huge Launch Party this week. This is precisely the kind of AI we need right now in real estate. First, a bit of background. The pre-sale renovation category is [...]

By |2024-05-15T14:53:25-07:00September 8th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: $300 billion, Digital Twins and Musk says he’s an idiot

Revive uses AI to introduce a new era of pre-sale renovations

Revive Vision AI is a game-changer for agents and home sellers alike. Think smart CMA meets AI-powered AVM, providing a more detailed foundation for pre-sale renovation discussions to help agents with their listing and pricing strategy.

By |2023-09-06T15:56:59-07:00September 7th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Revive uses AI to introduce a new era of pre-sale renovations

Real AI: iOi, Fearing Singularity and Five AI Facts

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.

By |2024-05-15T14:57:50-07:00September 1st, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, CRM, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: iOi, Fearing Singularity and Five AI Facts