REAL AI: AI tech must stop overpromising and underdelivering, AI fights the laws, facts, headlines and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 26 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. AI tech must stop overpromising and underdelivering The AI hype machine has been feeling like a runaway train lately. Fortunately, a few folks are opting to take the emergency break to slow things down. Let's look at a few examples: ChatGPT pauses voice features OpenAI first announced its [...]

By |2024-06-28T08:20:44-07:00June 28th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: AI tech must stop overpromising and underdelivering, AI fights the laws, facts, headlines and AI Quote of the Week

REAL AI: Update on AI in real estate from NAREE, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 25 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Update on AI in real estate from NAREE This week at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (naree.org), Jason Hidalgo of the Reno Gazette-Journal hosted a panel discussion on “Nearing the Inflection Point: Artificial Intelligence and Housing.” Featured panelists included Zillow AI expert Ondrej Linda; Tech-pert Glenn [...]

By |2024-06-21T08:37:54-07:00June 21st, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Update on AI in real estate from NAREE, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week

A Step Beyond Brad Inman’s Opinion of AI in Real Estate

The greatest journalist in real estate history is probably Brad Inman. He wields the proverbial pen like a master, blending conversations from sources with his experience and wit. This week, he took a swing at the future of AI in real estate. His analysis is impressive, but I think he missed one very important consideration.

By |2024-06-17T14:00:30-07:00June 17th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on A Step Beyond Brad Inman’s Opinion of AI in Real Estate

REAL AI: Will it be the Apple of your AI, Apple Intelligence could be the AI game-changer, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 24 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Will it be the Apple of your AI? As we predicted two weeks ago, the tech world (and Wall Street) was abuzz this week about Apple's AI-related announcements at its developer conference. Our take: most press reports were off the mark, lamenting how Apple is playing “catch up” when it [...]

By |2024-06-14T09:27:05-07:00June 14th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Will it be the Apple of your AI, Apple Intelligence could be the AI game-changer, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week

Real AI: AI avatars to attend meetings, AI “good or bad” debate continues, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 23 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. Images are AI + human generated. Will AI avatars attend meetings for you? File this one under "please don't." Sometimes, just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should. Someone needs to tell Google and Zoom that – and pronto! Both firms are working on AI avatars that will attend meetings for us. The initial results are frightening, [...]

By |2024-06-07T08:39:07-07:00June 7th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: AI avatars to attend meetings, AI “good or bad” debate continues, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

REAL AI: New study claims most don’t use AI tools, Apple’s quiet AI push, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 22 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. Images are AI + human generated. New study claims most don’t use AI tools With all the hype generated by generative AI and ChatGPT's claims of over 180 million users, you would think it is already ubiquitous. Apparently not. At least, that's the reported finding of the latest AI study from the Reuters Institute and Oxford University. While the study [...]

By |2024-06-01T08:58:12-07:00May 31st, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: New study claims most don’t use AI tools, Apple’s quiet AI push, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

REAL AI: Crazy about Canva, AI Newsbytes, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 21 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. Crazy about Canva This is a brief story about the best $10 a month a real estate agent can spend on any marketing tool. Canva was the online design tool that teachers and some real estate agents were raving about back in 2015. For teachers, their accounts were free. It was all WYSIWYG for everyone else – almost the opposite [...]

By |2024-05-23T16:26:58-07:00May 24th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Computer Vision, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Crazy about Canva, AI Newsbytes, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

REAL AI: ChatGPT 4ooooh, Renovation AI, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 20 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. ChatGPT 4ooooh (my goodness!) Did you see the live stream or video from OpenAI introducing ChatGPT 4o (pronounced “oh”)? The big news: the introduction of omnimodal AI. Oh, and it’s free for everyone (but much faster if you have the paid version and up to five times more capacity than the free version – more than worth the $20-a-month subscription). [...]

By |2024-05-20T08:03:03-07:00May 17th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on REAL AI: ChatGPT 4ooooh, Renovation AI, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

Real AI: AI will kill showing traffic, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 19 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 kill showing traffic but that’s a good thing The big AI takeaway from the 2024 National Association of Realtors Legislative Meetings (known in the industry as Midyear) held this week in Washington, DC, was an unexpected consequence of AI. This concept materialized during the Q&A at the end of the Emerging Business Issues & Technology Forum, "Integrating AI [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:31:33-07:00May 10th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, RESO, Technology, Virtual Real Estate, Virtual Tours|Comments Off on Real AI: AI will kill showing traffic, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

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

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