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Ben does it again: The world’s most productive agent invents SpecDeck for homebuilders

For almost a decade, we've been working with Ben Caballero, the No. 1-ranked real estate agent in the US since 2013 by RealTrends/HousingWire. If you haven't met Ben, he is one of the hardest-working people in real estate. He also possesses one of the sharpest, most innovative minds. It will come as no surprise to people who follow Ben that he did it again last week. No, Ben didn’t announce a new record-breaking sales record. He's done that multiple times as the first agent to eclipse $1 billion, then $2 billion (several times), and finally $3 billion in sales in [...]

By |2023-12-18T10:25:37-08:00December 18th, 2023|Builder, Builders, Marketing, MLS, Press Releases, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Ben does it again: The world’s most productive agent invents SpecDeck for homebuilders

Real AI: Evil AI, Holy Gemini, a great way for agents to use AI, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 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 a new edition every Friday. About Evil AI… WAV Group founding partner Victor Lund just published a provocative post called “Evil AI.” It's a vital topic to keep at the forefront of AI development. The underlying current is frightening. Evil AI demonstrates the enormous downside that has some of the most brilliant minds of our times warning us about the dark [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:38:39-07:00December 15th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Computer Vision, Cyber, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Suveys and Research, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: Evil AI, Holy Gemini, a great way for agents to use AI, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week

Real AI: AI specializes, 5 fast facts, top AI headlines and Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 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 a new edition every Friday and as a newsletter every Monday. AI specializes: gets smaller, smarter While Craig Newmark, founder of Craiglist, may not have changed his UI in decades, he has become an advocate of responsible AI. One of the nonprofits he supports, Moms First, announced an AI pilot to help people in New York secure paid leave with benefits: PaidLeave.ai. [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:39:28-07:00December 8th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI specializes, 5 fast facts, top AI headlines and Quote of the Week

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 [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:41:30-07:00December 1st, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, News, PropTech, Research|Comments Off on Real AI: Fannie Mae embraces CV, Claude.ai gets better, AI facts and top headlines

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 [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:42:35-07:00November 24th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Computer Vision, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: Unlocking real estate data, ChatGPT for real estate intel, 5 facts and AI headlines

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 |2024-05-14T14:43:39-07:00November 17th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, MLS, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: AI Turbo-powered, new AI research and top AI headlines

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 |2024-05-14T14:44:59-07:00November 10th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI and driverless cars (or not), AI fast facts and top AI headlines

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 |2024-05-14T14:47:12-07:00November 3rd, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI in your pocket, follow the (AI) money, fast facts and top headlines

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