Artificial Intelligence, Wisdom & Real Estate!

  

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“The measure of intelligence is ability to change”… Albert Einstein

 

There may be thousands of quotes about intelligence but who better than the most intelligent brain can define it than the great Einstein! And see what he has said about intelligence, it’s not about marks you have obtained in exams, not the degrees, nor the education in any specific branch, not even some innovation but just ability to change! And when my friend asked me to write about AI i.e. Artificial Intelligence in real estate, I asked my son to write about it, his thoughts as to use AI one has to have first some i.e. intelligence, is my view & this is the best way to test it! Below is something my son wrote, I am using that also as a starting point of the sharing as AI is related to technology & this (read as present) genre is more versed to it than me or say dependant on it, thanks to Google, Alexa, Chat GPT & many such, please Google to check the meanings if you are more ignorant about Ai than me!

 

Use of AI Technology in Real Estate (Rohit’s take)

     AI or what it stands for, “Artificial Intelligence” is the new most heard term by any generation who lives in the current world. It doesn’t matter if you’re just a teenager who has just started using the social networking apps or you’re a 50-year-old guy running his own business in any sector, this term has been introduced to you in some way or the other.  
    I personally am not a huge fan of what AI is or how it has affected society – firstly because it has the word Artificial, which literally translates to “Not-Real” or “Fake.” It means less or no human interaction, which I feel is a negative thing for any business. I have seen many articles of developers and experts in Real Estate on how they are introducing “AI” to their business for a better experience for the client. I do not agree with the statement as buying a home is a big decision for any person in any part of the world, and especially in our country, home comes along with a lot of traditions, rituals, emotions which I feel cannot be completed without human interaction. Now-a-days the age bracket of the client to buy homes has been changed from 40-50 years to 30-40 years, the clients are now more aware than ever when it comes to buying homes, they now study your product better than you along with the products of your competitors. So, I think using ‘AI’ to market your product may not be a wise decision as ‘AI’ cannot understand how to reach a through to your client’s emotions which plays a big part while buying a home.

    But still any new change comes with both pros & cons, similarly with ‘AI’ it can be used for the maintenance of data of clients/ enquiries/ leads which will help the developer to connect further with them. Small jobs like enquiry generations and better functionality of the website and back-office work can be increased with the help of ‘AI.’ But other than that, prediction of change in the market, using virtual reality for a show flat or valuation of properties are some things that cannot and should not happen without proper old school human interference and interactions…

 

… I congratulated Rohit for penning down (read as typing down) his thoughts on the subject which in a way are like catalyst for my own thought process as frankly for me AI is just another tool the way we have accepted JCB to replace manual excavation or Concrete pumps to replace human chain to pour concrete at higher levels or recently my friend asked me where the donkeys have gone because in 90’s, gangs of donkeys carrying material on their back was most common sight on bigger construction sites! My Puneri (read as sarcastic) reply was the donkeys are very much there, just now they are two legged (sorry my team, it’s a joke) but fact is, the donkeys have been replaced by tower cranes which now shifts material from one place to other in much lesser time & cost, however big site it may be. And there are many such examples of technology replacing conventional methods in real estate! But the difference between AI & all the conventional technology is, here we are talking about replacing the very base of any organization i.e. human intelligence & I think here is where we are making the mistake of mixing replacing something with helping hand! Means, to replace something is a different aspect but to take assistance is what we must look at AI, which is the trick.

 

The problem with real estate is, already we have lesser intelligence on every front & many will find my such statement as arrogance or typical leftist approach (to oppose or criticize everything around) but I am making this statement in full senses & I don’t consider myself different from real estate, rather I am very much part of it & with thirty-five years in this industry, I have some experience which made me dared to make such statement! For e.g. backbone of real estate is civil engg (I am yet a fool to believe this) & you ask any so called best engg college pass out student from civil engg & ask him or her for their career choice & if even 10% answers job with real estate firm, then I will delete my this blog post! And the same is applicable to every other faculty right from law to accounts to marketing & even admin or receptionist types jobs also! And I don’t blame these students, this is how the entire real estate business is looked up on (read as looked down) by the so-called intelligence brains in our country because the myth is in this industry you don’t need brain to succeed (read as earning money) but absence of brain works here better & muscle power mixed with money is enough! This is the reason why use of AI is a challenge for real estate because where basic intelligence itself is missing, how & who will handle the AI, is my point! And then most tasks here are being done manually as labour is still available at cheaper cost than technology, though, of late it’s not true yet many jobs right from tiling to plaster to plumbing, human hands are cheaper is a fact! Another aspect is, believing in AI technology, because most businessmen in real estate are themselves not tech savvy, to sale technology to such men is a hard job, this is the reason if you study most builders’ offices barring Tally or AutoCAD not many software’s have been developed to suit for real estate industry! There are few CRM or Sales related apps & softwares’ but I am speaking about 90% of builders & not just some elite 10% corporate types builders!

 

This doesn’t mean real estate doesn’t need AI, as after all it's a helping hand but what we need more is a brain with intelligence to make right use of AI in real estate. The biggest need for AI or such technology is on the data front because on one click I can get information about the latest, I Phone & prices all over the world but I can’t get the price of a particular brand’s cement bag available near to my site, is the scene in real estate! My purchase manager needs to call ten vendors & take rates & negotiate which is a time consuming process & same is the scene with most of the materials & services required for real estate, here is where AI can help a lot! Another front where AI can help to real estate is, data analysis of clientele & market i.e. what is needed to build & where! This is the weakest link of real estate as today we see thousands of buildings (projects) being build everywhere in & around Pune & the scene is common in all the cities but, is there demand for all these homes & work spaces, nobody has the answer to this question! Today all one has to do is buy a land & build whatever the builder feels 2 bhk, 3 bhk, 4 bhk & of size which he feels is saleable but no data or study is there for making the product in the first place! In no other industry a product is being made or designed or manufactured with such carelessness & I am making this statement with due respect to Big Bosses of real estate! Because in any other industry they do market research & study very thoroughly before launching any product, ask any automobile company even as big & as successful as Toyota or Hero, do they launch even a small car or a 100-cc bike without any demand study & you will realize the difference in real estate & other industries!

Reason is till today demand for home & work spaces was & is always more than supply but this won't last forever or say the scene may change from place to place as every city has its own saturation stage & here is where AI can help a lot!

 

Basic question is, who will design, develop AI for an industry which was never tech friendly, who will invest in this! I myself am a bit wary about AI as in the hands without intelligence AI can be more weakening for real estate as people will be over dependant on it & that’s why I personally prefer wisdom than intelligence, which will be another topic of sharing, so be it!  Finally, keeping track of employees as well sharing information is one more aspect which real estate has never seriously looked up at which will be important here after as right employees working for longer tenure is core strength if a company want to improve as well expand & for that we ne to keep track of such people which is possible with AI! In real estate, we have forgotten the basic principle of nature, with great powers comes great responsibility (Spiderman) & in any industry money, wealth demand for your product is in a way power itself. Till today the client (read as every other segment other than builder) of real estate was always submissive & real estate could get along even without intelligence but no more this attitude will help is writing on the wall which even AI can’t read for you, mind it real estate guys, adios with this note!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

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Sanjeevani Dev.

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Growing Up is, Understanding Duty; Abtak Chhappan!

 

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“I have grown up to such an age that now I am not afraid of being afraid” …

 Dear Dada, Chota & Younglings (it’s a term from star-wars),

It's Mid-December again & time for yearly gyan.com! Though by now you know, this will be old stuff in a new pack yet that’s what marketing (and ageing too) is all about, right? It’s one more year added in age or subtracted from life, depending on how you look at it & of late I am with lots of efforts have come to terms with earlier part & am thankful to life for this ability, that’s growing up! Let me share the logic about the starting quote which as per my friend’s opinion is wrong Grammar as she is from real Convent School but then I have never been right about many things in life especially about expressing myself, so be it! Why I chose these words (I never refer my words as quote as that’s for celebrities or wise people & I am not both) because every year (that way every day) which gets added in your life teaches you something just the way the years in the school & colleges has taught us, point is what we have learned out of those teachings! As it's only when you start practicing what has been taught to you or say you have studied, it can be called as learning or else it’s just in vain! In Murthi this has a very apt phrase, Palthya Ghadywar Pani i.e. like pouring water on a jug from the reverse side, it will wash away & nothing will get stored! I have gone a step ahead on this front of learning, even if the water gets stored unless you are able to extract this water at the right time, then only its learning or its dead storage or a corrupt hard disc drive. Means data is there but you can’t use it when you want to use it!

If you are wondering where this gyan.com train is going or as usual has got derailed but what this means is, all my writings, shares, posts are in a way extraction of my teachings which every person & every day in my life has taught me & this yearly sharing is like summary of the 365 days in the school of, life! The starting words are summery & this year’s is about being afraid! As we all are afraid of something all the time is a truth which we have buried deep within ourselves. And fear meets us in many ways & forms, the biggest & ugliest fear is of what if I fail & as we grow our fears change its shape & name & with every change its size grows. Dada & Chota, trust me I have seen most grown-ups crumbling under their own deep buried fears which we call stress burden but is actually inability to deal with the fears within of which we are afraid of! And then if you are a man then you are not allowed to be afraid is what our society’s belief (read as social law) is, as a woman can cry, express her stress & ask for sympathy though I know many women who don’t do it) but a man must suffer, he must now have any fear & courage is not having any fear! This is the biggest lie or myth, is my learning of the year & I am happy as finally I can freely be afraid of my fears or let’s say, I am not afraid of being afraid!  I have my own fears about many things just the way you may have about your future. For me, earlier it was M3 (google it) then it was about starting first project then it was about my BP or knee injury which will make me unable to play badminton for ever & then if nothing is there to fear, the minds is afraid of what will happen next i.e. fear of unknown, & the list of fears keeps increasing with every year! But it's ok, as now I treat the fears as my own, just the way you two are (don’t take it other way), means if I have fears & they make me afraid then I have my strengths also to fight with those fears, as how can I ignore my strengths when they too also exist in the same mind where my fears survive, is my learning of the year!

 

Dada & Chota, in all this journey of confronting fears, many things have helped me but most important is, being open (and being lucky) to get exposed to so many aspects of life as once you leave the college your official learning is done & in the school of life your teachers are people you meet, books you read, places you visit, movies you watch, radio you tune in & yes forest i.e. nature! All of them teach you one common thing, to survive & to live & in one such recent learning I happen to listen to a few words of Field Marshal Mankeshaw, not the movie but from the interview of a rtd army man! He said Field Marshal always use to say, Fauji ke liye sabse badhkar hoti hai uski Duty, koibhi kaam karnese pahale khduko puchho ki ye chij mery duty ke khilaf to nahi, aur fir wo baat karna”! What outstanding words & its meaning is, "for a military man, duty for the country is above everything & whatever you are going to do ask yourself first that, is that thing in line with your duty & then only do it"! I am not one percent military types (few fronts such as discipline, yes) but I too have believed this principle always, duty first! For a military man or woman, it's the country in line of duty, which is true for us also but we have other duties too! As a businessman I have duty towards my product & it includes clients to team Sanjeevani & I have duty towards my family & friends too as well I have duty towards every other person or living object who are weak & needs some support! This may sound too dramatic or philanthropic, but dada & chota, have you ever thought what makes the army men come over their fear of dying or suffering pain & yet keep moving ahead in battle, its their extreme belief in their duty, that belief makes them overcome their fears! This is my take away from birthday No. 56, (Abtak chhapan) as I have full belief in my duty or say duties & that makes me able to deal with my fears without being afraid of being afraid! As fear or being afraid is just an emotion or state of mind the way I am happy, sad, angry, I can be afraid also, whether I remain in that state all the time & ignore my duty, is up to me & here my duty stands above everything, even above my fears!

I share all such stuff with you just because I think it’s my duty as my father never explained life or its aspect to me in such way but that doesn’t mean he didn’t love me or not wanted me to learn all these things, may be his ways were different but that doesn’t make me not to try my way to teach you or say share my things with you! And then in your case my job is always three-way, dad, mom & a boss, maybe I should add a friend also in it now, which has taken a backseat for a long, it’s never too late to do right things! Well, this year’s gyan.com is bit lengthy but so were my fears & will add just one thing, you need not have to go to NDA or some military academy to respect duty, just know what is right in life & stand by that right thing, that’s your duty! To conclude, this year’s ten commandments & then you can stop reading, finally! These may not assure you success but surely will increase your chance for being successful & definitely will make you at peace only if you practice them, of course...!

1.Sleep early & wake-up early, that’s your duty towards your rest.

2.Do use social media, but need base only, that's your duty towards your personal brand.

3.Exercise daily, even walking will do, that’s your duty towards your body.

4.Read something every day, that’s your duty towards your brain.

5.Try to learn something new, always, that’s your duty towards the kid within.

6.Spend some time for your hobby, that’s your duty towards the true person in you.

7.Be observant always, every detail matters, that’s your duty towards the student in you.

8.Try to help others, however bad they behave with you, that’s your duty towards the society.

9.Respect every elder around you, that’s your duty towards knowledge.

10.Never be ashamed & late in saying sorry when you are wrong, that’s your duty towards rightness…

In a nutshell, growing-up is understanding your duty towards life! Thanks to you both as well all the younger gang i.e. Nikhil, ketki, Shurtika, Rohit M, Tanisha, Siya & others, who have helped me to be  on the right track!...

Baba.

 

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Sanjay Deshpande 

smd156812@gmail.com

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Super Moms of Tadoba, Episode 3; Alizanza Family!

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“Jab Maa ka Dil tadapta hai na, toh Aasman me bhi darar pad jati hai”. – Movie “Karan Arjun”.

 

Seriously, when it’s about emotions nothing can beat our Desi Movies & their dialogues, especially the movies from 90’s as may be its my genre (those who are 45 plus now) as we were in our young age, I mean in true means, the virtual world hasn’t hit us then & AI wasn’t the term which ruled our life, indeed emotions were easily accessible! I do miss all such dialogues in today’s movies but that’s not subject of the sharing so let’s keep this aspect of Bollywood for some time next & let’s come to our (read as my) favourite topic, not just tadoba but its Super Moms! This is third & last episode in present season (OTT language) as Tadoba will be there & so will be Super Moms which I hope to explore more ahead but for now its three special women i.e. tigresses which in a way are one family but has their own way to live. Yes, I am referring to Alizanza zone females which are locally referred as Bhanuskhindi female, Babali female & Zarni female.

Well, for those who are bumping with the sharing for first time, Super Moms of Tadoba is a series of writeups about tigresses in Tadoba forest & their contribution to wildlife, their challenges & wonderful journey till now, which I have been lucky to witness some part of it & I am sharing glimpses here as a tribute to these great Moms & somewhere someone can make their life a bit easier by reading this sharing! Many will ask, how can by sitting in our cozy homes (well, most of us has such) thousands of miles away from the forests which is home of these Super Moms, we can make their life better/ And many more will ask, why in the first place we should think for these Super Mom tigresses, as we have enough Ladkya Bahini & Moms to take care of already! I won’t argue neither I am able to answer this why but how, yes, that I can try! First answer how we must care for these Super Moms of tadoba is, by reaching out to people over there & helping them in every possible way which eventually will help these tigresses Moms & for that one has to visit the forests. About answering why (which I dn’t want to actually), the only answer come to my mind is, if we won’t do something for these Super Moms, who will, that’s why! This is the sole purpose of my sharing & before we get to know these Super Moms, a disclaimer! I am not researcher, nor an expert on tigers but I have seen many tigers & forests than common people  so whatever names, places, age, family tree of a tigress may not be perfect as this is not some research paper but simple sharing about what I learned & felt after watching these tigresses in their respective homes, so please forgive if any discrepancy on such details, rather do revert to me with right data if you have, I will correct the same in my sharing!

 

Coming back to our wonderful Alizanza family which may sound weird to our human society i.e. the three tigresses I mentioned i.e. Bhanuskhindi, Babali & Zarni, which lives with one Male tiger, out of them Bhanuskhinndi seems to be eldest & she has become weak also due to some injury. Tigers though are good climbers yet the terrain which this tigress has made her home has got some nasty sloping hills & in rains the boulders get real slippery & during one such walk she seems to get injured badly to such extent that she was unable to hunt. She has got four cubs to feed & you can’t imagine what must be going through her mind as injured tiger mom means a certain death for all the family by starving! There are tells (forest tells) that the male tiger, legendary Chota Matka who has fathered those cubs, helped her to feed by hunting domestic animals, some says forest dept kept cattle tied up near the place where she has been resting during injury, we will never know the facts. Most important thing is, Bhanuskhindi female survived, though she lost one of her four cubs, & at present her one female cub is on the way of becoming Super Queen of Tadoba i.e. Nayantara! Bhanuskhindi, after recovering from her injury often has been seen with all her cubs resting near a water hole & though she herself become bit shy due to injury, her cubs have grown up liking the tourists & outcome is, Nayantara is dearest of them, walking boldly among the gypsies, a sight for which people visit Tadoba! Though Bhanuskhindi tigress definitely has become weak in the tiring process of fighting with her injury & growing up three cubs & now she has to face nature’s worst challenges i.e. fighting with her own daughter for territory! So, recently she seems to have taken a step back & retreated in non-tourism area yet tadoba will always be grateful to her for her contribution! Last time when I saw them together, all the three cubs were sleeping peacefully but Bhanuskhindi was wide awake & was looking at my camera, her eyes were telling me, don’t make noise my kids are sleeping! The area in which Bhanuskhindi & her cubs made their home has human’s presence right within the forest due to a temple & this has made the family so used to humans that Nayantara has been filmed while carrying a Bisleri water bottle thrown in waterbody near temple & making media as well common people think that its tourists which littered the forest which isn’t the case. Its locals who did that & this is what we must do, have right knowledge about the facts related to forests. As well let’s keep our religion away from the wildlife as we can build temple of our god outside of the forests but poor bahnauskhindi can’t move out of the forest to raise her kids, that’s why this sharing!

 

Let’s meet Zarni, the mysteriously shy Super Mom of Alizanza, she occupies far end of Alizanza buffer forests beyond which human settlements starts & that’s the reason of her being more cautious in giving sighting! In every buffer forest there are two regions, one which is towards core side & another towards outer side i.e. not forest area! This outer part of buffer forests meets with human settlements & tigers as they can’t understand our definition of boundaries like buffer, core, tourism zone or non-tourism zone as the only thing a mom tigress knows is to find safe shelter for her cubs & some food. Tigers actually are extremely afraid of humans & most attacks on the humans by the tigers is by accident or in fear & this the great Jim Corbett himself has noted down nearly hundred years back & that still is a fact. No wonder with lots of human movement around Zarani has learnt to keep away from human eyes & her cubs are also developed that way. This is why cubs of bold tigresses which has got privacy in the forest becomes bold & walk freely on road even when numbers of gypsies are around, which Nayantara, daughter of Bhanuskhindi does & Chandani, female cub of Zarani is shy the way her mom is! But this doesn't take away Supe Momship of Zarani as her job is tougher as on one side, she has to protect her cubs from threats in the wild as well she has to keep her cubs safe from humans as even a sub adult cub which may be hardly one & half year old but unable to hunt on its own can accidently enter in to village nearby or kill some humans resulting putting the cub’s life in danger! This has happened as one of the Bhanuskhindis bold male cub has been taken away as it supposedly has killed two or three villagers which ventured in the forests but price has to be paid by the tiger family! In so many of my Aliszanza trips I could click Zarni only once & that to on a hot summer noon when she has to come at water hole, the guide told me to be read  saying, "sir tayyar rahena ye tigress jada time nahi bahar rukati, bass ek ya do minute milenge aapako photo khichane" & practically it was three minutes show, she came out of thick bushes where she was resting drank water & went back but in that three minutes she has given me a dream shot of my photography (though I couldn’t encash it fullest), a beautiful tigress with her reflection in still water with green forest in the background, that’s Super Mom Zarani! 

 

And here is the third & most popular one Super Mom of Alizanaza, Babali! As the name says she is bold, bubbling all the time & she stays near core area of Tadoba from navegaon side & ventures even in the area of Choti Tara (one more Super Mom from core area) also, yet with keeping safe distance! In her territory comes huge & probably only real meadows of tadoba & no wonder she isn’t shy of showing herself in open as this part of forest has lesser green cover as well its near to core so not much human movement is here. Though the danger of male tigers does loom in Babali’s territory but she has a protector in the form of Chota matka male tiger, this is why Babali's most cubs have survived & are bold to such extent that her eldest male cub is named as Kalua & is delight of the tourists at present! One of her female Sub adult cubs, named Bali has been relocated to Project Tiger in Odisha recently! I don’t know what a mom tiger feels about such things as by now Babli has already got new cubs, but that’s how wildlife is, cruel a times! 

 

There are two common factors for these three Super Moms of alizanza, one is their mating partner i.e. huge male tiger named Chota Matka & another is fight to make their cubs grow-up safe! Advantage of having one strong male tiger around is, other male tigers doesn't enter in the territory & the chances of cubs getting killed by them are les. But disadvantage is, the next mating from the existing male tiger can make the existing cubs get detached too early which I have observed here. Ideal time of superstation of cubs from their mom is two & half years but due to pressure of mating, cubs of above tigresses are on their own nearly a year early. This can make things miserable for the sub-adult cubs as lack of hunting knowledge & inability to make their own territory at such young age can cause their death, which is the only outcome in the forests if you can't protect yourself! Here is where our job to make life of these Super Moms easier comes in the picture as we must try everything to accommodate these new cubs (coexistence) which can give these moms some peace of mind, is all I can say! And it’s easier to write such words from my protected office cabin but to accommodate a tiger in your backyard is very tough yet forest dept & villagers around tadoba are doing it, so we can at least join hands with them in such efforts, that will be real tribute to all these Super Moms of Tadoba as well other forests! At Jungle belles we are conducting series of presentations in schools in Pune about these Super Moms, so the kids of cities can understand efforts of theirs’s as well Tiger moms to make them grow, that’s our tribute to all the Super Moms, adios with this note in this episode, with a promise for introducing some more Super Moms of Tadoba, soon! 

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Sanjay Deshpande 

smd156812@gmail.com

Sanjeevani Dev.

Please view my sharing about finding a Right Home/ Office in Pune, at YouTube link below & share if liked...

 

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https://visonoflife.blogspot.com/2024/01/choosing-your-home-along-with-future-of.html

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