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Chuck Niswonger has over 30 years of successful
leadership experience in technology-related roles
that range from operating his own consulting
company (www.nicenets.com) to directing the IT
strategy of a real estate investment management
firm to manufacturing and technology-enabled education. Chuck
has also been the chair of the Realcomm Investment Manage-
ment (IM) Advisory Council for the last ten years, managing
content selection for the conference educational sessions, IM
forums, workshops and webinars.

1 “Will Robots Take Over CRE? Driverless Cars, Blockchain, and other
Transformative Technologies.” Cushman & Wakefield, Aug. 9, 2018,
www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/research-and-insight/2018/
will-robots-take-over-cre.
2 “Best AI Platforms Software for 2018.” G2Crowd, accessed Sept. 9,
2018, www.g2crowd.com/categories/ai-platforms.
3 Bruner, Jon. “The Bot Platform Ecosystem.” Oreilly, Sept. 17, 2016,
www.oreilly.com/ideas/infographic-the-bot-platform-ecosystem.
4 Cohen, Steven A., and Granade, Matthew W. “Models Will Run the
World.” The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 19, 2018, www.wsj.com/
articles/models-will-run-the-world-1534716720.

• In the hunt for competitive advantage, model-driven
companies will accelerate away from the pack now
that software has become ubiquitous.

We’ll leave the hype of Artificial General Intelligence for the
science fiction movies for now, but press forward with the
reality of narrowly focused AI using platforms and models
and bots. Additionally, I agree with Robert Entin that we will
do so with a “balance of exuberance and caution.”

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