Real estate agents vs. AI agents

So much to learn; so little time. Artificial Intelligence is moving faster than the speed of biking through the Florida Keys.

While we encouraged slow-paced travel in the 1950s, scientists tinkered with computers. By the time Jimmy Buffet inspired Margaritaville, an inventor and futurist named Ray Kurzweil had shaped generations of technical thinkers and builders.

In 1999, as Key West’s Fantasy Fest turned 20 years old, Kurzweil predicted that human-level intelligence — better known today as artificial general intelligence — would arrive by 2029.

Wow. That’s just around the corner. But his prediction that the behavior of machines capable of understanding, learning and reasoning at or beyond a human level has been calling loudly from our electronic devices since 2020. Are they accurate, or roguish?

These are questions for lay people like me, who prefer the human experience.

Regardless of your concern about AI chatbots or vast AGI agents in warp-speed training to think like you, it’s clear that machine capabilities have upgraded and, in many cases, broken into almost every industry.

A few years back, Preferred Property’s Cory Held attended a Realtor National Convention where an AI session concluded that 75% of people are not comfortable with AI in the real estate industry.