Hey, y’all. This AI stuff − Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is freaky.
You may or may not know that I’m a part-time minister. On a lark the other day, I tried out ChatGPT by asking it to write a sermon on “loving your enemies.” Timely to say the least, the way this country sometimes seems to be coming apart at the seams. I will spare you the preachin’, just to keep my worlds from colliding.
I’ve been playing with it in spare moments. Last night I made this goofy request:
Hey, ChatGPT! Write a 10-line poem about Richard Mize in iambic pentameter. LOL!
And I got this goofy thing:
Richard Mize, a man of humble grace and might,
In his presence, darkness turns to golden light.
With words of wisdom, he paints life’s vivid scene,
A poet’s soul, profound and yet serene.His verses dance, each syllable in tune,
An eloquent embrace of moonlit June.
In iambic pentameter, his heart sings,
A lyrical melody, the muse he brings.Through ink and quill, he weaves an enchanting art,
Richard Mize, a poet, captured in my heart.
OMG and LOL, as they say! I posted it on Facebook. A college friend commented: “Uh huh. No Vienna sausages mentioned so I’m not impressed.” Then a mutual college pal chimed in: “Or stogies. I call BS. Or BOB (Breakfast on a Bun, a la Whataburger). It’s like they don’t even know him.”
Ha ha. Yep. AI is not omniscient. Yet.
The sermon request was my first request of ChatGPT. Then I asked him to tell me about Devon Tower and Oklahoma City real estate. It got a lot closer.
So I wrote about it. Let’s get to it, and the other OKC real estate news from the past week. Oh, if you don’t subscribe to the digital Oklahoman, please consider it, starting at $1 for three months. And if you want to hear what I did with the AI sermon, in my own sermon, email me and I will send you a link.
What you get when you ask AI, ChatGPT, a chatbot, about real estate in Oklahoma City
Have you played around with AI yet? Artificial Intelligence? A chatbot? It’s wild, and amazing, and kind of scary.
Not because of what it is, but because of what it inevitably will be: a “disruptor” in the way most of us can’t imagine — a “form of technology that causes radical change in an existing industry or market by means of innovation. “
A chatbot, such as ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a computer program that mimics human conversation, either written or spoken, allowing people to interact with digital devices as if they were communicating with a real person. It does so by scouring the internet for information. …
I thought I’d try it out. I typed into ChatGPT:
Tell me about Devon Tower.
Read all about it.
How April home sales in Oklahoma City came slinking along
Spring home sales in the Oklahoma City area acted more like a Slinky on stairs in April: stretching, pulling and tumbling down, after sidestepping national declines during the first quarter of the year.
Sales were down nearly 10%, pending sales were down 2.3% and new listings were down 4.2% compared to March, according to the Oklahoma City Metro Association of Realtors.
The median price slipped, but less than 1%, to $270,000.
Read all about it.
With Tuesday Morning and Bath & Beyond closing, here’s where to find similar goods in OKC
Morning Tuesday Morning? Steaming over the loss of Bed Bath & Beyond?
Both national chains are going away. That makes 10 home goods stores closing down in the OKC area in a matter of weeks: four Bed Bath & Beyond, and six Tuesday Mornings. …
Here are comparable stores (some more than others) for shopping in OKC after Tuesday Morning and Bed Bath & Beyond are gone.
Read all about it.
Remember Oklahoma’s ‘brain drain’? Here’s what’s happened since it was declared plugged
COVID-19 helped plug Oklahoma’s “brain drain,” the out-migration of the state’s best and brightest. With the pandemic winding down, has the plug held?
It was just more than a year ago that the Federal Reserve of Kansas City declared the drain corked in its quarterly publication Oklahoma Economist: “Oklahoma’s Population During COVID: Early Deaths, New Residents and an End of the Brain Drain.” …
The plug has been held, according to moveBuddha, an Athens, Georgia-based online platform that lets people compare moving and pricing options. It just released “Sooner State Resurgence: The moveBuddha 2023 Oklahoma Migration Report,” by data reporter Joe Robison.
Read all about it.
What’s up with all the new warehouses built by out-of-state developers in OKC?
The giant Sam’s Club warehouse distribution center headed for one of Oklahoma City’s new huge industrial parks spotlights OKC’s place in the competition for industrial construction and its recent attraction to out-of-state developers.
Where is that place? The middle of the country, and at a crossroads of supply and online demand. As one of the new parks, 9500 West Reno Ave., suggests, it’s at “the center of the market.” spells out. A St. Louis firm is developing that park.
Sam’s Club is headed to OKC Logistics Park and a 295,757-square-foot warehouse to add to its supply chain to deal with online sales, home delivery and curbside pickup. A Kansas-based company is developing that park on the northeast corner of SW 29 and Council Road. …
Here’s a rundown of big out-of-state industrial betting developers in Oklahoma City, followed by a list of local warehouse projects. “Betting” because these are speculative investments, meaning they were started with no tenants lined up.
Read all about it.
This vacant fixer-upper could become a mental health unit for county jail
By The Oklahoman’s Jack Money.
Oklahoma County could spend up to $25.6 million to buy and improve a vacant hospital as a way to address the mental health needs of jail prisoners without waiting for a new facility to be built.
A hospital built in the 1950s capable of handling up to 140 patients at 2110 SW 59 that county records show is owned by Hillcrest Osteopathic Hospital/Hillcrest Health Care Inc. is available for $19 million.
While the building needs a new roof and some other upgrades, County Commissioner Myles Davidson believes it could meet a critical need.
Read all about it.
Edmond man launched a project to build a sculpture park as a gift to the community
Another one by Jack! This will be cool.
EDMOND — If everything goes as planned, a larger-than-life sculpture of galloping steeds will honor Edmond’s past as a gateway to its newest park.
The sculpture, called “Valle del Caballo” — or, Valley of The Horse — shares a name with the land on which the park is to be built. The land was named by Mike and Hilde Johnson, whose family raised Arabian horses there for decades.
The 62-acre piece of land, bordered by Second Street on the south, Coltrane Road on the east and Vista Drive on the west, was acquired for $4.5 million in December 2021 by Hal French, a longtime Edmond oil, gas and real estate entrepreneur .
Read all about it.
Commercial real estate deals from OKC’s Price Edwards & Co. and Newmark Robinson Park
PTL Burgess LLC paid Mercer Street Holdings LLC $11,000,000 for a 53,973-square-foot Midland Center, a retail property at 3315 Northwest Expressway, Oklahoma City. Paul Ravencraft and George Williams handled the transaction.
Read about the rest of the deals.
Outparcels, pad sites, remnants, and scrapwood
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Senior Business Writer Richard Mize has covered housing, construction, commercial real estate and related topics for the newspaper and Oklahoman.com since 1999.