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With AI’s support, the real estate business is seeing a revolutionary shift. With the widespread adoption of AI, real estate agents have access to a suite of AI solutions that can transform their business and provide unparalleled service to clients. Some apps use artificial intelligence to help people choose their ideal homes, forecast real estate values, and even manage their real estate agencies. 

Here are some of the top AI Tools for Real Estate Agents

Styldod

Styldod is an AI-driven platform that provides numerous options for improving the visual appeal of real estate listings. Thanks to its virtual staging tool, potential buyers may picture themselves living in the house. The tool allows users to design empty rooms tastefully.

Compass 

With Compass, artificial intelligence has become the standard in CRM. Having an assistant who is aware of when to contact customers is like having your very own personal helper. Compass’s artificial intelligence system will point you in the correct way if they have been using real estate websites or are otherwise exhibiting behaviors indicative of home hunting. It can even pre-write emails to speed up communication with clients.

REimagineHome 

Users of the AI-powered interior design application REimagineHome can revamp their houses by utilizing personalized design suggestions and inspiration. To do away with time-consuming and error-prone manual design methods, generative AI produces design ideas in seconds. It’s easier than ever to create a lovely and distinctive living space with REimagineHome’s AI-powered design that lets customers rapidly and easily modify their houses.

CoreLogic

By using artificial intelligence to find the ideal houses for each buyer, CoreLogic’s OneHome platform reaches new heights. It’s as if you had a real estate matchmaker who guaranteed the greatest possible pairings. Artificial intelligence (AI) from CoreLogic streamlines mortgage origination by discovering new revenue streams and automating warnings for missing documents. Real estate in North America is being transformed by CoreLogic, which has over 1.2 million agents on board.

Reonomy 

Discover CRE prospects and make data-driven decisions with Reonomy, powered by AI and ML. With Reonomy’s industry-leading CRE property and ownership data, sourcing new deals and discovering off-market opportunities is a breeze.

Rentlytics 

With their platform, Rentlytics is working to make all of the world’s real estate data easily accessible. The world’s leading real estate investment management organizations rely on Rentlytics solutions. Rentlytics is relied upon to provide the data and resources needed to make long-term, profitable portfolio decisions in this ever-changing industry. An inclusive and energetic crew of techies, the Rentlytics Team is here to use AI to revolutionize the real estate investment management sector and meet the demands of today.

PropertyPen

With PropertyPen, an innovative AI-powered tool, real estate teams can easily and rapidly build professional listings. Using natural language processing (NLP) and an advanced language model, it can quickly and accurately describe properties in a way that is both compelling and free of grammar mistakes.

Ailliot

One tool that real estate agents and brokers can use to ease their content creation process is the Ailliot Real Estate AI Assistant. Thanks to this work automation, real estate agents may free up more time to focus on expanding their businesses.

Jude AI

Jude AI is an AI-powered platform for real estate agents and brokers. It provides several solutions for AI-powered real estate companies. With Jude AI, users can easily evaluate market data, create compelling emails, and generate engaging content. Jude AI offers crucial suggestions to help first-time homebuyers navigate the home-buying process.

Epique AI

Among the many real estate-related services offered by Epique AI—a tool driven by artificial intelligence—are the following: the development of real estate blog pieces, newsletters, lead generation ideas, and Instagram quotations for realtors. With Epique AI’s legal AI tool, you can get help with all the rules and laws of your state. Regarding broker advice, Epique AI has you covered with its AI function. The user-friendly chat interface of Epique AI allows users to pose targeted questions and obtain pertinent replies.

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Pre-training large models on time series data faces several challenges: the lack of a comprehensive public time series repository, the complexity of diverse time series characteristics, and the infancy of experimental benchmarks for model evaluation, especially under resource-constrained and minimally supervised scenarios. Despite these hurdles, time series analysis remains vital across applications like weather forecasting, heart rate irregularity detection, and anomaly identification in software deployments. Utilizing pre-trained language, vision, and video models offers promise, though adaptation to time series data specifics is necessary for optimal performance.

Applying transformers to time series analysis presents challenges due to the quadratic growth of the self-attention mechanism with input token size. Treating time series sub-sequences as tokens enhances efficiency and effectiveness in forecasting. Utilizing cross-modal transfer learning from language models, ORCA extends pre-trained models to diverse modalities through align-then-refine fine-tuning. Recent studies have utilized this approach to reprogram language pre-trained transformers for time series analysis, albeit resource-intensive models require substantial memory and computational resources for optimal performance.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania present MOMENT, an open-source family of foundation models for general-purpose time series analysis. It utilizes the Time series Pile, a diverse collection of public time series, to address time series-specific challenges and enable large-scale multi-dataset pretraining. These high-capacity transformer models are pre-trained using a masked time series prediction task on extensive data from various domains, offering versatility and robustness in tackling diverse time series analysis tasks.

MOMENT begins by assembling a diverse collection of public time series data called the Time Series Pile, combining datasets from various repositories to address the scarcity of comprehensive time-series datasets. These datasets encompass long-horizon forecasting, short-horizon forecasting, classification, and anomaly detection tasks. MOMENT’s architecture involves a transformer encoder and a lightweight reconstruction head pre-trained on a masked time series prediction task. The pre-training setup includes variations of MOMENT corresponding to different sizes of encoders, trained with Adam optimizer and gradient checkpointing for memory optimization. MOMENT is designed for fine-tuning downstream tasks such as forecasting, classification, anomaly detection, and imputation, either end-to-end or with linear probing, depending on the task requirements.

The study compares MOMENT with state-of-the-art deep learning and statistical machine learning models across various tasks, contrary to TimesNet, which mainly focuses on transformer-based approaches. These comparisons are essential for evaluating the practical applicability of the proposed methods. Interestingly, statistical and non-transformer-based methods, such as ARIMA for short-horizon forecasting, N-BEATS for long-horizon forecasting, and k-nearest neighbors for anomaly detection, demonstrate superior performance over many deep learning and transformer-based models.

To recapitulate, this research presents MOMENT, the first open-source family of time series foundation models developed through comprehensive stages of data compilation, model pre-training, and systematic addressing of time series-specific challenges. By utilizing the Time Series Pile and innovative strategies, MOMENT demonstrates high performance in pre-training transformer models of various sizes. Also, the study designs an experimental benchmark for evaluating time series foundation models across multiple practical tasks, particularly emphasizing scenarios with limited computational resources and supervision. MOMENT exhibits effectiveness across various tasks, showcasing superior performance, especially in anomaly detection and classification, attributed to its pre-training. The research also underscores the viability of smaller statistical and shallower deep learning methods across many tasks. Ultimately, the study aims to advance open science by releasing the Time Series Pile, along with code, model weights, and training logs, fostering collaboration and further advancements in time series analysis.

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The need to convert PDF documents into more manageable and editable formats like markdowns is increasingly vital, especially for those dealing with academic and scientific materials. These PDFs often contain complex elements such as multi-language text, tables, code blocks, and mathematical equations. The primary challenge in converting these documents lies in accurately maintaining the original layout, formatting, and content, which standard text converters often need help to handle.

There are already some solutions available aimed at extracting text from PDFs. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools are commonly used to interpret and digitize the text contained within these files. However, while these tools can handle straightforward text extraction, they frequently need to improve when preserving the intricate layouts of academic and scientific documents. Issues such as misaligned tables, misplaced text fragments, and loss of critical formatting are commonplace, leading to outputs that require significant manual correction to be helpful.

In response to these challenges, a new tool called “Marker” has been developed that significantly enhances the accuracy and utility of converting PDFs into markdown. Marker is designed to tackle the complexities of high-density information documents like books and research papers. It supports extensive document types and is optimized for content in any language. Crucially, Marker not only extracts text but also carefully maintains the structure and formatting of the original PDF, including accurately converting tables, code blocks, and most mathematical equations into LaTeX format. Additionally, Marker can extract images from the documents and integrate them appropriately into the resultant markdown files.

It has been finely tuned to efficiently handle large volumes of data, utilizing GPU, CPU, or MPS platforms to optimize processing speed and accuracy. This capability ensures that it operates within a reasonable usage of computational resources, typically requiring around 4GB of VRAM, which is on par with other high-performance document conversion tools. Benchmarks comparing Marker to existing solutions highlight its superior ability to maintain the integrity and layout of complex document formats while ensuring the converted text remains true to the original content.

Further setting Marker apart is its tailored approach to handling different types of PDFs. It is particularly effective with digital PDFs, where the need for OCR is minimized, thus allowing for faster and more accurate conversions. The developers have acknowledged some limitations, such as the occasional imperfect conversion of equations to LaTeX and minor issues with table formatting. 

In conclusion, Marker represents a significant step forward in document conversion technology. It addresses the critical challenges faced by users who need to manage complex documents by providing a solution that not only converts text but also respects and reproduces the original formatting and structure. With its robust performance metrics and adaptability to various document types and languages, Marker is poised to become an essential resource for academics, researchers, and anyone involved in extensive document handling. As digital content grows both in volume and complexity, having reliable tools to facilitate easy and accurate conversion will be paramount.

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On May 13, OpenAI held its Spring update event, at which the company announced its newest model, GPT-4o, an AI model with a GPT-4 level of intelligence. The “o” in GPT-4o means omnimodal capabilities due to its ability to process and integrate text, vision, and audio. The event was overall good and properly highlighted everything important and relevant, including the major announcement of the official ChatGPT desktop app for Mac.

Before we elaborate on the new ChatGPT Mac desktop app, here are a few worth mentioning:

• The event started and ended with positivity, and the first big news was that ChatGPT has over 100 million users worldwide. 
• The most exciting announcement was the introduction of its new model, GPT-4o. This new model is accessible to all. It will be available for free to all ChatGPT users.
• The new GPT-4o can better understand and respond to voice commands, allowing you to interrupt between the responses to change the topic or tone or get a better response output. 
• The new and improved vision capability can see what’s going around you and respond to you accordingly, and even help you solve complex questions. 
• The new model can even assist you with coding in real-time just by using the desktop app by highlighting and pressing cmd + C. But for now, this is only available on the Macs.
• Lastly, the new model’s speech translation ability was one of its highlights because of its speed and lack of awkward lags in between.

The most shocking and interesting news was the ChatGPT desktop application for Macs. It surprised a few people as Microsoft had invested over $13 billion in OpenAI. Yet, OpenAI came up with the Mac application first, possibly due to the highly rumored Apple and OpenAI deal, which is said to be close to being a done deal.

As suggested, the Mac application is only available to macOS users and requires macOS 14.0 or later. Although the news is big, not everyone is happy because, as stated before, investors, like Microsoft, expressed disappointment that the first desktop app release was for macOS and not Windows. However, OpenAI has assured that they plan to launch a Windows version later this year, as most of their users are Windows users.

The ChatGPT app can also live and stay pinned in your taskbar for quick and easy access. 

The Mac application can monitor your screen and appear on any opened tab. 

You can easily share any picture or screenshot with it using the drag-and-drop option.

Within seconds, you will receive a response related to the image.

Finally, the app can communicate with you like an assistant and present you with appropriate answers to your queries.

In Conclusion:

The OpenAI Spring update event was quite eventful and exciting. The introduction of the new GPT-4o model with its omnimodal capabilities is particularly intriguing. Additionally, the ChatGPT desktop app announcement for Mac is a significant development. Some are disappointed by the lack of a Windows version, but that will not last long. Overall, it’s clear that OpenAI is making impressive steps in AI technology. Now we wait and hope to get GPT-5 later this year!

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In the dynamic field of AI technology, a pressing challenge for the drug discovery (DD) community, especially in structural biology and computational chemistry, is the creation of innovative models finely tuned for drug design. The core challenge lies in accurately and efficiently predicting molecular properties crucial for understanding protein-ligand interactions and optimizing binding affinities, essential for advancing effective drug development initiatives.

In current structural biology and drug design, researchers commonly depend on existing datasets and methods, which have inherent limitations like structural inaccuracies, crystallographic artifacts, and difficulties in accurately capturing the dynamic nature of protein-ligand interactions. Traditional approaches for predicting molecular properties often lack the necessary detail for complex protein-ligand interactions, neglecting the vital role of dynamics and flexibility in understanding binding mechanisms and affinity.

Researchers from the Institute of Structural Biology, Technical University of Munich, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Helmholtz AI, Cambridge University, Jagiellonian University, and Institute of Computational Biology propose MISATO, marking a transformative shift in drug discovery and structural biology methodologies. MISATO addresses the limitations of existing methods by integrating quantum-chemically refined ligand data, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and advanced AI models. This comprehensive approach facilitates a nuanced understanding of molecular properties, capturing electronic structure details and dynamic behavior crucial for accurate predictions. 

MISATO takes a comprehensive approach, utilizing semi-empirical quantum chemical methods to refine ligand datasets. This method captures electronic properties with high accuracy, while also analyzing both electronic structure details and dynamic behavior, crucial for precise predictions. Additionally, classical MD simulations within MISATO characterize the dynamic behavior and conformational landscape of protein-ligand complexes, offering insights into binding mechanisms and flexibility. AI models integrated into MISATO, such as graph neural networks (GNNs), are trained on this enriched dataset to predict properties like adaptability, binding affinities, and thermodynamic parameters. Extensive experimental validations confirm the efficacy of these models in accurately predicting key molecular properties crucial for drug discovery.

In conclusion, MISATO signifies a key stride in AI-driven drug discovery and structural biology. By integrating quantum chemistry, MD simulations, and advanced AI models, MISATO provides a holistic and robust solution to challenges in structure-based drug design, enhancing accuracy and efficiency and empowering researchers with potent tools.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and ChatGPT exhibit exceptional capabilities in complex reasoning tasks such as mathematical problem-solving and code generation, far surpassing standard supervised machine learning techniques. The key to unlocking these advanced reasoning abilities lies in the chain of thought (CoT), which refers to the ability of the model to generate intermediate reasoning steps before arriving at the final answer, kind of like how we humans break down a complex problem into smaller steps in our head. This can be achieved through methods like training the model on examples enriched with intermediate reasoning steps or using few-shot prompting to instruct the model to generate a CoT.

Now, you might think that the contents of these intermediate steps is what allows the model to reason better. But interestingly, in this study, the researchers found that even if the intermediate steps are incorrect or completely random, just the act of generating them still helps the model a lot. It’s like the model is being told “Okay, think this through step-by-step” and that alone improves its reasoning ability drastically.

So the researchers wanted to understand why this “chain of thought” approach is so powerful for transformers (the type of model used in GPT-3, etc). They used concepts from circuit complexity theory and adopted the language of computational complexity classes like NC, AC, and TC to analyze this problem.

Essentially, they found that without the chain of thought, transformers are limited to efficiently performing only parallel computations, meaning they can solve problems that can be broken down into independent sub-tasks that can be computed simultaneously.

However, many complex reasoning tasks require inherently serial computations, where one step follows from the previous step. And this is where the chain of thought helps transformers a lot. By generating step-by-step reasoning, the model can perform many more serial computations than it could without CoT.

The researchers proved theoretically that while a basic transformer without CoT can only solve problems up to a certain complexity level, allowing a polynomial number of CoT steps makes transformers powerful enough to solve almost any computationally hard problem, at least from a theoretical perspective.

To back up their theory, they also did some experiments on different arithmetic tasks – ones that can be parallelized and ones that inherently require sequential computations. Sure enough, they found that transformers struggled on the sequential tasks without CoT, but enabling CoT drastically boosted their performance, especially when the transformer model was relatively small/shallow.

In essence, the chain of thought is a simple but powerful trick that vastly increases the reasoning capabilities of transformer models like GPT-3. It allows them to tackle complex tasks requiring sequential logic that parallel models would fail at. 

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Information extraction (IE) is a pivotal area of artificial intelligence that transforms unstructured text into structured, actionable data. Despite their expansive capacities, traditional large language models (LLMs) often fail to comprehend and execute the nuanced directives required for precise IE. These challenges primarily manifest in closed IE tasks, where a model must adhere to stringent, pre-defined schemas.

IE tasks compel models to discern and categorize text in formats that align with predefined structures, such as named entity recognition and relation classification. However, existing LLMs typically falter when tasked with the nuanced understanding and alignment necessary for effective IE. Researchers have traditionally employed strategies such as prompt engineering, which involves providing detailed annotations and guidelines to assist LLMs without altering underlying model parameters.

The research community has observed a critical need for a methodology that enhances LLMs’ understanding of structured tasks and improves execution accuracy. In response, researchers from Tsinghua University have introduced a new approach called ADELIE (Aligning large language moDELs on Information Extraction). This approach leverages a specialized dataset, IEInstruct, comprising over 83,000 instances across various IE formats, including triplets, natural language responses, and JSON outputs. 

ADELIE diverges from conventional methods by integrating supervised fine-tuning with an innovative Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) strategy. This blend enables the model to align more closely with the intricacies of human-like IE processing. Initial training involves a mix of IE-specific and generic data, using the LLAMA 2 model over 6,306 gradient steps, which ensures the retention of broad linguistic capabilities alongside specialized IE performance.

Performance metrics reveal that ADELIE models, ADELIESFT and ADELIEDPO, achieve benchmark-setting results. In evaluations against held-out datasets, ADELIESFT shows an average F1 score improvement of 5% over standard LLM outputs in closed IE tasks. The improvements are even more pronounced for open IE, with ADELIE models outperforming state-of-the-art alternatives by 3-4% margins in robustness and extraction accuracy. In the realm of on-demand IE, the models demonstrate a nuanced understanding of user instructions, translating into highly accurate data structuring.

In conclusion, ADELIE’s methodical training and optimization translate into a potent alignment of LLMs with IE tasks, demonstrating that a focused approach to data diversity and instruction specificity can bridge the gap between human expectations and machine performance. This alignment does not compromise the models’ general capabilities, which is often a concern with task-specific tuning. The impressive results across various metrics and task types underscore the potential of ADELIE to set new standards in information extraction, making it a valuable tool for multiple applications, from academic research to real-world data processing.

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Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, enabling groundbreaking advancements in various applications such as machine translation, question-answering, and text generation. However, the training of these models poses significant challenges, including high resource requirements and long training times due to the complexity of the computations involved. 

Previous research has explored techniques like loss-scaling and mixed-precision strategies to reduce memory usage and enhance training efficiency for large models. However, these methods faced limitations related to numerical inaccuracies and restricted representation ranges, impacting overall model performance. 

To address this problem, researchers from Cornell University and Amazon have introduced COLLAGE, a novel approach that employs a Multi-Component Float (MCF) representation to accurately handle operations with numerical errors. This innovative strategy optimizes efficiency and memory usage during training. By integrating COLLAGE as a plugin with optimizers like AdamW, significant improvements in training throughput and memory savings have been achieved compared to conventional methods. Moreover, COLLAGE introduces the “effective descent quality” metric, offering a nuanced evaluation of precision strategies and insights into information loss during the training process.

The central advancement of COLLAGE lies in its ability to handle numerical errors and imprecision without necessitating upcasting to higher precision formats, ensuring precise computations with low memory footprint and computational efficiency crucial for LLM training. Performance-wise, COLLAGE exhibits significant speed-ups in training throughput, achieving up to 3.7x better throughput on a GPT-6.7B model. Moreover, COLLAGE maintains comparable model accuracy to FP32 master weights while utilizing only low-precision storage, highlighting its effectiveness in balancing accuracy and efficiency in LLM training.

In conclusion, this innovative method presents a promising low-precision optimization strategy for enhancing language model training efficiency without compromising performance. Its utilization of MCF optimizations contributes to improved execution speed, optimized memory utilization, and overall model quality, paving the way for more efficient and scalable LLM training methodologies.COLLAGE also speeds up LLM training with reduced memory usage without compromising model performance, making it easily integrated into existing optimization frameworks. This breakthrough significantly advances the field of large language model (LLM) training by enabling the efficient training of larger and more scalable models while also reducing their carbon footprint.

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In cybersecurity, while AI technologies have significantly bolstered our defense mechanisms against cyber threats, they have also given rise to a new era of sophisticated attacks. Let’s explore the darker side of AI advancements in the cybersecurity domain, focusing on its role in enhancing adversarial capabilities. From AI-powered phishing attacks that craft deceptively personal messages to advanced cryptographic attacks that challenge the integrity of encryption methods, let’s delve into how AI is reshaping the landscape of cyber warfare, presenting unprecedented challenges and opportunities for cybersecurity professionals.

AI-powered Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks

AI is reshaping the landscape of social engineering and phishing attacks, allowing for highly targeted and personalized campaigns. AI tools analyze vast datasets to identify potential targets, fine-tuning phishing messages that resonate with specific individuals. These messages are increasingly difficult to distinguish from legitimate communication, significantly increasing their effectiveness. The continuous improvement of generative AI models means they can adapt to counteract detection techniques, making traditional defenses less effective. 

Deepfakes and Synthetic Media for Deception

The use of AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic media in cyberattacks presents a growing threat, particularly in political misinformation and personal impersonation. These technologies can create convincing audio and visual content, leading to misinformation or manipulation of public opinion. The sophistication of these tools enables the creation of media that can be nearly impossible to differentiate from genuine content, raising significant concerns for security and misinformation. 

Evolving Malware and Ransomware with AI

AI also enhances malware’s capabilities, including ransomware, making these threats more adaptive, resilient, and difficult to detect. AI-driven malware can analyze its environment and modify its behavior to evade security measures. This includes learning from defensive responses and finding new vulnerabilities without human intervention. The increased use of AI in malware development suggests a future where automated threats can independently orchestrate attacks across networks. 

AI-enhanced Network Intrusions

AI is increasingly used to automate the process of network intrusion, allowing for rapid and sophisticated attacks. By leveraging AI, attackers can quickly analyze vast data to identify vulnerabilities and orchestrate network attacks. These AI-powered tools can mimic normal user behavior to evade detection systems and perform actions such as data theft, system disruption, or deploying further malware. AI-driven network intrusions represent a significant threat because they can operate at a scale and speed that human attackers cannot match. Integrating AI into network attacks necessitates advancements in equally sophisticated AI-driven security measures to effectively detect and neutralize these threats.

AI in Information Warfare

AI’s capabilities are being exploited in information warfare to automate the creation and dissemination of disinformation. This application of AI can influence public opinion, manipulate political outcomes, and destabilize societal cohesion. AI algorithms can generate believable news stories, social media posts, and even fake images or videos, spreading them across platforms where they can be difficult to distinguish from real information. The strategic use of such AI-generated content can profoundly affect public perception and discourse, making it a powerful tool in information warfare. Addressing this challenge requires robust mechanisms to detect AI-generated content and educate the public about the potential for misinformation.

AI for Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities

The proliferation of IoT devices has expanded the attack surface for cyber threats, and AI is being used to exploit vulnerabilities in these devices. Attackers use AI to automate discovering unsecured IoT devices and deploy botnets or malicious software. This can lead to large-scale attacks, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), which can impact infrastructure, steal data, or gain unauthorized access to networks. The ability of AI to learn and adapt makes it particularly effective at identifying new vulnerabilities as they emerge, challenging cybersecurity professionals to constantly update defenses.

AI and Cryptographic Attacks

AI is also making waves in cryptography by enabling more effective attacks on cryptographic algorithms. Through machine learning and pattern recognition techniques, AI systems can analyze encrypted data to find vulnerabilities without knowing the underlying encryption key. This can potentially lead to the decryption of sensitive data without authorization. The evolving capability of AI to break cryptographic protections faster than ever poses a significant threat to the security of data transmissions and stored information, urging the development of more resilient cryptographic methods that can withstand AI-driven attacks.

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