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The fight against spam never seems to end. Spammers constantly change their tactics to get noticed, and email services and their users constantly try to stem the incoming deluge. Spam filters help, but manual ones can catch false positives, and automatic filters don't always get it right. That means you can end up with junk in your inbox--or perhaps even worse, miss something from someone important because it's been identified as spam. It's important to regularly check the contents of your spam folder, and to set up a list of safe senders.

Maurice Grassau, CEO of Architrave, cuts through the buzzwords and hype to explain what machine learning is and what its use is in real estate. Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which broadly seeks to make machines that perform complex tasks by imitating intelligent human behaviour. There are two distinct different ways machine learning can operate. One method uses rule-based algorithms, and the other uses a self-learning model. Take a digital game of chess.