If you were asked to envisage an actor, a neurotic person might spring to mind, while the thought of an salesperson may conjure up someone who is chatty and extraverted. While some consider these lazy stereotypes, a comprehensive new study suggests that such common assumptions are actually true. Using data from 68,540 people, researchers have identified the personality traits that typify more than 260 job roles. They found that actors, journalists, town planners, authors and graphic designers are among those that tend to be more neurotic. Meanwhile, PR managers, marketers, psychologists, dental assistants and film directors are generally more extraverted. 'People often have stereotypes about the personality traits typical of different jobs, and it turns out that many of these intuitions are quite accurate,' said study author Dr René Mõttus at the University of Edinburgh.

Buying a house is stressful, expensive, and time-consuming. Not only is it the biggest purchase you will make in your life, but it is also considered as one of the most anxiety and stress-inducing. Technology has been working hard to solve many of the issues and shortcomings of the housing and property market. Various emerging technologies including AI, blockchain, and automation have been working hard to streamline the process, and just make things work a bit better. Blockchain has found a variety of use cases in different industries and sectors.

In the UK alone, there are 21,641 estate agents – all of whom are paid salaries ranging from £14,000 to £60,000 per year. As the world begins to once again open up, estate agents across the globe are once again out in force but, maybe not for long. As businesses look for new ways to cut costs, many people feel that there may be a new real estate kid on the block – the robot. Real estate agents are also often required to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the local area in order to inform potential buyers about important aspects of the region including schools, transport and nightlife. If you've ever viewed a property to either buy or rent, you'll no doubt have been shown around the place by a real life, human estate agent – but all of that may be about to change.

Artificial intelligence in real estate is not just a buzzword today. Today AI has become an integral part of technology. AI has proliferated in many industry divisions, and real estate is no exemption. Opposed to what many people worried, the rise of AI hasn't led to a surge of jobs being displaced by computers, and neither is it likely to in the foreseeable future. Instead, AI arose from the need to obtain higher value from frequently large data sets, which have long since outgrown human intelligence to make sense of them.

Advancements in technology are shaping the way real estate agents and homeowners navigate the home selling and buying process. In today's modern world, real estate professionals rely on sophisticated data to drive decisions, assess home value, and find ideal buyers. Keeping up with the times can be difficult, but the technology that's now available to agents is an exciting and convenient shift. Here are a few ways new technology is shaping the real estate industry and how agents can gain a competitive advantage by staying informed on the latest trends. Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the real estate industry. While still a relatively new trend, AI is here to stay.

Temporarily forgetting she is sitting beside me, I shout to my wife: "I'm in the children's bedroom." We can't go to the Republic of Ireland ourselves to do this. Travellers from Great Britain need to restrict their movements for a fortnight, so nipping over and back is off the cards. But I can take several paces through a virtual seaside flat in Dublin's Dún Laoghaire, while based in our south London home. Circles appear on the floor of the Dublin flat and, using hand controls, I can glide between them and explore.

Our comprehensive guide to how chatbots will develop in 2020 and beyond. Artificial intelligence is the hottest talking point for business users looking to improve their efficiency, deliver new ideas and take the next steps in the transition to a digital enterprise. AI and chatbots are helping democratise business, empower startups and help build new partnerships, something that every organisation needs to prepare for. "Every business is a technology business" was one of the mantras of the decade just concluded. Every company across every vertical and market started working and communicating with smartphones, using cloud services to open up their data and adopted as-a-service solutions to reduce the cost of doing business and broaden their business base and the opportunities for workers. Ten years ago, specialists were needed to manage databases and build websites. Now anyone with a plan can build an entire company out of off-the-shelf parts, sell across the world without leaving their desk. They can pick advice from a huge range of sources to grow the business and partner with a massive range of organisations to deliver whatever they sell. Now as we move into the 2020s, enterprises and startups alike are taking the next step, adopting AI and bringing smart services into their organisations. It has already started with chatbots and analytics tools, but is already expanding to business-enabling technology, using a mix of machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, machine reasoning (MR), and deep or strong AI. Companies will continue to deploy AI for intelligent robotic process automation, computer vision tasks, and machine learning applications.

While it was once considered an advanced technology of the future, artificial intelligence is very much a present-day reality. Thanks to inventions like self-driving cars, home assistant devices, automatic vacuum cleaners and remote home security solutions, Artificial Intelligence is on everyone's lips. Since AI seems to affect both the public and private sector, we started thinking about all the different ways in which it'll shake up the real estate world. Read on to find out more about the current and future impact of AI in property sales, marketing and operations. Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, refers to smart technological tools whose level of awareness allows them to learn from their environment in order to improve processes and decision-making.

"PropTech AI won't be able to immediately fill the shoes of an estate agent." PropTech is hardly a new industry; estate agents and other businesses in the property industry have been digitally transforming for decades. Search portals, such as Rightmove in the UK, started amalgamating available properties and recommending homes over 18 years ago when Amazon was just expanding from being a book reseller to a full-blown reseller site for third-party consumer goods. In 2019, it's not surprising that some PropTech companies have already been touting claims of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning so sophisticated it can replace a real estate agent outright. This is stretching the truth. While many PropTech companies might possess highly sophisticated automation software with some AI elements, none so far have established meaningful AI that can replace the human component.

Finding success is all about embracing the change to come -- and that's never been more relevant in real estate. Our industry is evolving in so many exciting ways with greater access to data and technologies that allow us to do our jobs better by cultivating leads, pinpointing pricing and, ultimately, helping clients achieve their real estate goals. It's a necessary, symbiotic relationship, one that can change quickly with each new innovation. Real estate agents are certainly professionals who love shiny new things, but we also understand the importance of utility and use that as a means of vetting the many tools and technologies that could be integrated into our day-to-day operations. The majority don't make the cut.