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

How Small Brokerages Can Leverage the MLS to Provide Meaningful Tech Support

Small brokerages, which constitute a significant segment of the real estate industry, can benefit greatly from leveraging the MLS to provide meaningful tech support to their agents.

By |2023-11-02T06:31:15-07:00November 1st, 2023|Business Intelligence, MLS, Product Management, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on How Small Brokerages Can Leverage the MLS to Provide Meaningful Tech Support

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

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

MLS Touch Mobile App from CoreLogic Hits 1 Million Subscriber Milestone

There are lots of great features in MLS Touch, but the two that separate the application from others in the marketplace are integration with the client portals in MLSs, along with being parcel centric.

By |2023-09-20T15:04:58-07:00September 20th, 2023|MLS, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on MLS Touch Mobile App from CoreLogic Hits 1 Million Subscriber Milestone

CRMs are Sloppy, Details Make the Difference

These sales tools can work, but it is the broker/agent’s job to go into every template email, format and test the work.

By |2023-09-18T14:47:24-07:00September 18th, 2023|Broker-Agent Information, CRM, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on CRMs are Sloppy, Details Make the Difference

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