Archive note (September 2026): First published in June 2024. This is a snapshot of five AI developments and experiments I was following then, with updated links and clearer context for the early medical research mentioned below.
They say that home is where the heart is… and happily, it’s also where the Wi-Fi connects automatically!!! Either way, I can’t believe we are partway through June and rocketing toward the End of the Financial Year—if you’re in Australia!
It's time for our monthly list of five things; as usual when it comes to my favourite topics of AI and real estate, there's plenty to discuss!
1. LinkedIn is expanding AI job-hunting features for premium subscribers.
In June 2024, I wrote about a property portal with conversational search abilities. LinkedIn was also announcing AI-powered tools to help users find jobs, including conversational job searches.
gif: LinkedIn
You can even get resume help from the AI, but I would question how much help is too much… particularly if you’re in the hiring position. You can read more about what the plan is here.
2. Is Bing getting into real estate?
While OpenAI appears to be making deals with publishers to incorporate content into ChatGPT, over in the US, realtor.com, Zillow, and Redfin pinged Bing for having unlicensed content (read: Listings) on bing.com/homes.
It was quickly removed.
Bing Real Estate’s home page on the Gold Coast in June 2024 — properties linked to listings on realestate.com.au and Domain.
Inman contacted Microsoft for comment, but they declined.
I’d love to be able to see around corners on this one, but I guess we will all have to wait for the next instalment.
3. Humanoid robots have been driving in Japan
We saw two things I’ve only read about before while we were in Texas:
A Waymo self-driving car (bizarre!) and
The Tesla Cybertruck (a weird sight when stuck in traffic!)
Speaking of traffic, though, researchers in Japan have designed a humanoid robot that can autonomously operate a vehicle by mirroring a human musculoskeletal structure.
This humanoid, named Musashi, is equipped with advanced sensors and a flexible body, enabling it to perform intricate driving tasks like sitting down, manipulating pedals, and steering.
The team's paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and if you’re feeling curious or nerdy, it can be found here.
Meanwhile, here’s Musashi:
Image: Kento Kawaharazuka et al
For a refresher on AGI and real estate - click here.
4. Medicinal marvels
AI research was making headlines in medicine too. These stories ranged from early research to speculative concepts, so they shouldn’t all be treated as medical breakthroughs. The robotic head-transplant story I originally linked described a concept, not an established treatment.
Another story explored research into 3D-printed skin. That was a research development, rather than evidence of a routinely available treatment.
(This has nothing to do with real estate, of course, but what a time it is to be alive, right?!)
5. Let AI build your website
When Apple made all of their AI announcements in June 2024, it was hard to limit myself to just five things in this post.
However, I have decided to wait and write about them when they deliver something we can use!
That June weekend, I also went down a rabbit hole with an AI tool that could draft a sitemap and website wireframe from a prompt.
It was called Relume; the image below shows my experiment at the time.
I liked that this one's AI not only gives you a best practice wireframe but also gave me some pretty good ideas for content—generated, of course, by AI.
So there you go — five things that caught my attention in the AI world in June 2024.
Happy hunting 🚀