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AI advances fastest when we find unnatural ways of doing things. Magnus Carlsen is widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time. An obvious prodigy (his Wikipedia page mentions solving 50-piece jigsaw puzzles when he was 2 years old), he earned the rank of grandmaster at age 13,...
If you ask ten proptech venture capitalists (VCs) where the portmanteau “proptech” came from, you’ll get ten claimants. The trusty ol’ Wayback Machine from Internet Archive shows “PropTech” on the homepage of VCs as far back as October 2014, a time when terms like “CRETech” and “RETech” were also in circulation.
This is a question we are often asked at The Proptech Connection (The PTC). The answer is simple, but also complex. Simply, it’s a catch all term that describes technology that...
In this first article on opportunities in alternative assets, Bill Blain, MD of Bowline Capital Solutions and author of Blain’s Morning Porridge, looks at the emerging BioManufacturing Sector.
If you Google “proptech funding 2023”, you’ll find a series of search results gesturing to the drying up of venture funding over the year, particularly for those who are yet to turn a profit.
Real estate is fundamentally changing, understanding, and shaping how technology can improve or defend assets.
The world has witnessed breathtaking advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT being one of the best known examples. To prevent harm and misuse of the technology, politicians are now considering regulating AI. Yet they face an overlooked barrier: AI may have a right to free speech.
What does Proptech mean? This is a question we are often asked at The Proptech Connection (The PTC). The answer is simple + complex. Put simply, it’s a catch all term that describes technology that impacts space. The complex answer is that its constantly changing- reflective of the changing nature of Real Estate.
I was having a conversation with an entrepreneur recently. She had recently founded a start-up which aimed to integrate a number of “point solutions” so real estate brokers could have several of their needs met on the one platform.
If increasingly panic-stricken headlines are to be believed, Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. The Prime Minister’s advisor on AI has warned that...