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AI Tool Writes Real Estate Descriptions Without Ever Stepping Inside a Home

Saturday May 15, 2021. 12:00 PM , from Slashdot
A Canadian startup called Listing AI is using AI to quickly churn out computer-generated descriptions of real estate. All users need to do is give it some details about the home, and the AI does the rest. CNN reports: 'L O V E L Y Oakland!' the house description began. It went on to give a slew of details about the 1,484 square-foot home -- light-filled, charming, Mediterranean-style, with a yard that 'boasts lush front landscaping' -- and finished by describing the 'cozy fireplace' and 'rustic-chic' pressed tin ceiling in the living room. The results still need work: The real-life Oakland, California, home that fits with the above description (which my family is currently selling) actually has a pressed tin ceiling in the dining room, rather than the living room, for instance. The descriptions Listing AI created for me are not nearly as specific or well-written as the one crafted by our (human) realtor. And I had to provide the website with a lot of information about different rooms and features of the house and the outdoor landscaping -- a process that felt a bit like real-estate Mad Libs -- before the website was able to come up with several different descriptions.

But the general coherence of the descriptions that Listing AI proposed within seconds of my submission provides yet another sign that AI is getting better at a task that was traditionally seen as uniquely human -- and shows how people may be able to work with the technology, rather than fearing it may replace us. It probably won't do all the work of writing a house description for you, but according to Listing AI co-founder Mustafa Al-Hayali, that's not the point. He hopes it will complete about 80% to 90% of the work for coming up with a home description, which may be completed by a realtor or a copy writer. 'I don't believe it's meant to replace a person when it comes to completing a task, but it's supposed to make their job a whole lot easier,' Al-Hayali told CNN Business. 'It can generate ideas you can use.' The information used in the app is processed by GPT-3, an AI model from nonprofit research company OpenAI. According to MIT Technology Review, GPT-3 could herald a new type of search engine.

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