AI Will Destroy Jobs: It's Coming Faster Than I Thought
As an old guy I am wrong person to comment on AI but I just encountered it in Mortgage Brokerage role that knocked me over
In the mortgage business we talk to people
Pure Digital Mortgages are just 4% of originations
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Only Licensed Mortgage Brokers can discuss rates, terms & mortgage products with the public but others can schedule calls, request documents, & deal with service calls
For the last year our company has been shown AI models to address these functions
They were OK but clumsy
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But this week BOOM: an AI Voice Assistant that's BETTER than people
- Perfect speaking voice
- Answers any question
- No lag on responding
- Gets a joke
- Funny when it should be
- Sounds confident & upbeat
I was blown away, its such a massive leap forward over the past
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Homeowners Filing For Bankruptcy: Something That Never Happened For 14 Years Is Now Normal
Since 2008 Homeowners represented less than 5% of Bankruptcies in Ontario, some years less than 2%
Homeowners did have financial problems but they solved them without a Trustee
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Homeowners didn't need assistance from an Insolvency Trustee due to the endless increase in the values of their homes
Getting behind on Credit Cards? - Get a Heloc
Big Debt Problems? - Refinance your House
Job Losses, Can't pay the Mortgage? Sell the house & have $350K cash
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Being a Homeowner in a decade of rapidly rising Real Estate Value was a solution for most personal financial problems, even when a Homeowner visited an Insolvency Trustee they were often told to refinance the house
Ontario Unemployment Problem Eminent Danger For The Canadian Economy
I know most Canadians hate to hear about problems in Ontario, people in other provinces are so tired of the Ontario as the center of the Universe theme
But 38.5% of all Canadians live in Ontario
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It's as if Texas or California had populations of 155M
And the wheels are starting to come off Ontario's economy
Things we covered before & a few new things
The collapse of the new home industry in Ontario has become big news
Sales of brand new construction SFD homes
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Fell well below 1000 last month, a number not seen in decades
Although some Purpose Built Rentals starts this year & some Commercial & Government Builds