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REAL AI: Turn AI into your daily habit, AI for criminal minds, AI facts, headlines and quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 8 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. WARNING: Beginning in LESS THAN 10 DAYS, on March 3, this content will only be available via our free newsletter, delivered by email every Monday, so please subscribe here! Turn AI into your daily habit CoreLogic’s Clareity25 MLS confab in the Arizona desert, attended by many industry leaders, just concluded. But unlike most real estate conferences, AI never really took center [...]
AI will you be mine, AI makes free art but the legal rulings start, AI facts, AI headlines and AI quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 7 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. WARNING: Beginning March 3, this content will only be available via our free newsletter, delivered by email every Monday, so please subscribe here! AI, will you be mine? Are AI companions infiltrating Valentine’s Day? The statistics say absolutely: one in four young adults think AI boyfriends and girlfriends could replace real-life romance. AI companion apps are booming, with industry researchers expecting [...]
A new computer vision study: Perhaps the coolest use of AI in real estate to date
Restb.ai powers computer vision tech for MLSs, reaching over 750,000 real estate agents and brokers nationwide. They've been around longer than just about any AI firm in our space and excel at what they do because of the rule of AI: experience wins. If you have access to automated listings that scan images first to create a listing without inputting anything, or if your property photos are scanned during uploading for potential compliance violations, or if your MLS offers a consumer search experience that uses natural language ("find homes with island kitchens and Wolf stoves"), that's most likely Restb.ai powering [...]
REAL AI: AGI in 2025, revisiting Claude, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 2 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! Is AGI coming in 2025? This week's AI buzz is around AGI – not Adjusted Gross Income but Artificial General Intelligence. The head of the company that gave us ChatGPT, OpenAI, wrote in his blog entitled “Reflections” : “We are now confident we [...]
REAL AI: Top 5 AI stories, AI facts and headlines plus the AI Quote of the Year
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 52 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! Top 5 AI stories of 2024 During the last year, we amassed real estate-related AI content that included more than 100 original features, 250 AI facts and links to impactful AI videos, over 270 links to AI stories of the week, and 50+ [...]
REAL AI: AI Podcasts for the Holidays, Sora and Gemini overpromise, Headlines and AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 50 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Sora, Gemini overpromises (again) Big announcements this week: the news that OpenAI is finally releasing Sora and Google was upgrading to Gemini 2.0 was everywhere. The problem is that the average agent doesn't have access to any of the cool stuff being discussed. Both are [...]
CoreLogic’s Trestle Share: Connecting markets and increasing broker value
In the real estate industry, we thrive on connections – between agents, clients, and data. For MLSs, seamless data sharing isn't just a convenience; it has become necessary to stay competitive as geographic borders disappear, creating an even more interconnected marketplace. Even with the reduction of MLSs across America, overlapping market disorder continues to plague data management for brokers spanning multiple markets. MLSs can better serve their broker clients by fulfilling the need for efficient tools to break down data silos and deliver access to broader listing pools. Traditional data-sharing models have often been a roadblock. Costly, time-intensive data-sharing connections [...]
REAL AI: Text from image pro tips, AI reimagines online shopping, AI Facts, Headlines and AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 49 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Text from image pro tips Most real estate agents know that ChatGPT's superpower is content creation, but more and more, we are discovering it has other Ninja moves that impress. Putting together this weekly AI newsletter for real estate helped us test and refine ChatGPT's [...]
REAL AI: Canva AI for photos rocks, Talk to AI, AI Facts, Headlines and AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 48 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Canva AI for photos rocks We’ve been “Crazy about Canva” for a long time but exceedingly addicted to its AI photo editing capabilities. Besides the Chatbots we use daily, Canva is another practical AI tool we turn to throughout the week. If you haven’t used [...]
REAL AI: More AI tips from NAR NXT, Tell-tale signs it was written by AI, AI Facts, Headlines and AI Quote of the Week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 47 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. More AI tips from NAR NXT The first time I saw Marki Lemons Ryhal on stage, I was impressed by her energy, style, content, and sassiness. She clearly was a force to be reckoned with. She also knows a thing or two about resilience. From [...]