REAL AI:  Best ChatGPT hack for Google Calendar, AI Summit takeaways, AI facts, headlines, and quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 33

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Best ChatGPT hack for Google Calendar

Are you still manually adding conference sessions, travel plans, and meeting blocks into your calendar one at a time? Stop. Let ChatGPT do it for you.

I’ve been a loyal Google Calendar fan since they introduced color-coding about 15 years ago. It’s my daily lifeline, and especially vital during real estate conference season. When August rolls around, I juggle back-to-back events, making it essential to keep my work calendar complete, as my colleagues rely on it to schedule quick meetings and calls during my travels.

This week’s HousingWire AI Summit in Dallas was my first big event of conference season. Normally, I’d block out session times and enter coffee breaks manually. But this time, I copied the entire online agenda from the HousingWire website on my desktop and pasted it into ChatGPT 5.

I gave ChatGPT 5 a prompt asking it to turn every session in the pasted agenda into an individual calendar entry. Seconds later, it gave me a downloadable .ics file. On my Mac using Google Chrome, I selected “My Calendars” on the left menu, clicked on the “+” symbol, and then selected “Import” from the pull-down menu. I selected the ChatGPT-created .ics file, and instantly, every session was there, perfectly scheduled.

Other items to import

I didn’t stop there. I accessed my Alaska Airlines account, selected my trip summary from their website, and then pasted it into ChatGPT. I then prompted it to create an “all-day” event for each day I will fly. What used to take me 30 minutes was done in seconds.

Don’t have Google Calendar? ChatGPT has your back. The .ics format it outputs works on all the most popular calendars, including Apple Calendar, Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, Proton Calendar, Zoho Calendar, and most other major scheduling platforms.

ChatGPT can also generate .csv files if you want to review or edit events before importing them.

I have a spreadsheet that tracks my travel arrangements through the spring of 2026. Instead of manually entering each flight, hotel, and conference title, I will use ChatGPT to transform my spreadsheet into a ready-to-import Google Calendar format instantly.

Korey and I will be testing this more. It’s already a must-have REAL AI hack for anyone who lives in their calendar. (-Kevin)

Takeaways from the AI Summit

HousingWire presented its 2nd Annual AI Summit in Dallas last week. Overall, it was excellent. The speakers were on topic, giving both insight and occasional takeaways highly relevant to their audience. Below are a few notes, well, worth noting.

My only complaint about the Summit is that it was too “mortgage-heavy.” It would have benefited greatly from more real estate brokerage insight.

Two real estate brokerage-related sessions were exceptional: Sumanth Kamath, Chief Technology Officer with eXp Realty, and the conversation Rajeev Sajja, SVP, Digital Marketing and Innovation, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach Realtors, had with Betsy Cameron, President of Dallas-based Ebby Halliday Companies.

The mortgage industry is leading the AI race in real estate: Brokerages may have seen their agents swiftly adopt LLMs – 87% of their agents quickly embraced AI, Delta Media’s Survey showed – but mortgage lending is going further and faster to integrate AI into every facet of their business.

AI Literacy: The real estate ecosystem – loan officers and real estate agents – need more AI education and ongoing training. AI is changing too fast to have training once or twice a year. AI can help bridge this gap by providing more personalized and customized training. Brokerages and mortgage firms need to lean into this – now.

Real estate agents are the “humanist” factor: “AI can’t replace this part of the real estate transaction,” Ebby Halliday’s President Betsy Cameron emphasized repeatedly. Hiring agents who are empathetic and have great people skills may be more crucial than ever.

Mortgage LOs will need to focus on “the last mile.” The mortgage process is littered with mundane, repeatable tasks. AI can replace most of the lending process, especially on the refi side, where there is an “easy button.” But there is no easy button for home buyers who need financing, and LOs will need to be the ones to take purchase mortgages across the finish line, as AI can’t hold a nervous buyer’s hands.

Do you have an AI Policy? One of the best moments of the day was when BHHS Fox & Roach’s Sajja asked, “How many of you have an AI Policy?” A solid 50% of the hands went up in the room. Then he asked, “How many have an AI Policy that their people actually know about?” and one hand went up, as laughter sprinkled the room. AI Policy is table stakes for brokerages and mortgage firms.

Key to AI adoption? Quick wins: Sajja, who has an AI podcast, notes that the key to getting agents to use AI more regularly and for more things can be done through “quick wins.” When an agent experiences first-hand a huge time savings because of AI, they get that light bulb moment. Quick wins, and they are off. (-Kevin)

AI Facts and Stats

1. 26% of companies surveyed said they have developed the necessary capabilities to move beyond proofs of concept and generate tangible value from AI – BCG

2. 85% of marketing professionals stated they find AI at least somewhat successful in achieving their marketing objectives – Ascend2

3. Over 40% of current AI users say they trust the information provided by AI tools – Attest

4. 13% of organizations report hiring AI ethics specialists to address responsible AI development – McKinsey

5. 73% of AI experts believe AI will have a positive impact on jobs – Pew Research

Source: Semrush (-Korey)

AI Headlines

ChatGPT is not killing Google Search: AI myth debunked | 8/14/15 WAV Group
Google Search sends 380 times more clicks to publishers than ChatGPT.

OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt | 8/11/25 Wired
ChatGPT 5’s launch feels like both a step forward and backward.

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically | 8/13/25 The Verge
Gemini plays catch up to a feature ChatGPT Teams has had: memory skills across chats for more than a year.

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations | 8/11/25 The Verge
Claude also is playing catch up to ChatGPT, finally adding memory skills,

True Footage and Restb.ai cut hours from the appraisal process with AI-powered accuracy. | 8/11/25 Appraisal Buzz
Restb.ai and True Footage are collaborating to produce more accurate and objective property condition insights. (-Korey)

AI Quote of the Week

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