Schwarcz, Daniel B. and Choi, Jonathan H., AI Tools for Lawyers: A Practical Guide (March 29, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4404017 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4404017 “This Article provides lawyers and law students with practical and specific guidance on how to effectively use AI large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard, in legal research and… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
The Worst Covid Strategy Was Not Picking One
Bloomberg: The lessons of the pandemic are clearer in a global comparison. Three years after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic, we finally have reason to celebrate: Global deaths from the virus have dipped below 1,000 people per day for the first time since March 2020. But with almost 7 million… Continue Reading
Help! My Political Beliefs Were Altered by a Chatbot!
WSJ (free link) – Help! My Political Beliefs Were Altered by a Chatbot! AI assistants may be able to change our views without our realizing it. Says one expert: ‘What’s interesting here is the subtlety.’ When we ask ChatGPT or another bot to draft a memo, email, or presentation, we think these artificial-intelligence assistants are… Continue Reading
The Moral Machine – Could AI Outshine Us in Ethical Decision-Making?
Beyond2060: “There has been a lot of hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth about the dangers of AI. Artificial Intelligence is going to be the end of us all, apparently. But is this inevitable? Can’t we create ethical AI which strictly adheres to ethical principles and will only benefit mankind? Philosophers have been debating ethics for… Continue Reading
Words Matter: The Role of Language in Dispute Resolution
Slaw, Ian Mackenzie – “How we frame conflict can influence how we approach its resolution. The world of litigation is full of angry, combative words that reinforce the perception of conflict resolution as a battle. Of course, some of this is inevitable as much litigation leads to “winners” and “losers”. However, in some areas of… Continue Reading
Google introduces new features to help identify AI images in Search and elsewhere
TechCrunch: “Google is taking its first steps toward combating the potential for misinformation arising from AI-generated images. Complementing its announcements at its I/O developer event this afternoon, the company also introduced two new features coming to Google Search that aim to help people better understand the content and the context of the image they’re viewing… Continue Reading
Google makes its text-to-music AI public
TechCrunch: “Google today released MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music. Available in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android or iOS, MusicLM lets users type in a prompt like “soulful jazz for a dinner party” or “create an industrial techno sound that is hypnotic” and have… Continue Reading
2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
a16zcrypto: “Emerging technologies evolve in cycles; in crypto, this includes periods of high activity, followed by so-called crypto winters. In the period marked by our now-annual State of Crypto report, it would be easy for a casual observer to overlook the rapid progress the crypto industry is making. Major infrastructure improvements like The Merge –… Continue Reading
Introducing 100K Context Windows
Anthropic: “We’ve expanded Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, corresponding to around 75,000 words! This means businesses can now submit hundreds of pages of materials for Claude to digest and analyze, and conversations with Claude can go on for hours or even days. The average person can read 100,000 tokens of text in… Continue Reading
2023 Enterprise Legal Reputation Report
ONIT – “The Ultimate Guide For Legal Departments to Directly Influence Business Materiality, Growth and Efficiency. The full report has been released, illuminating opportunities for legal departments to elevate their relationships, revolutionize their brand image, and optimize their material impact and growth. How? By becoming more modern, efficient, and interactive business partners, thanks to smarter… Continue Reading
How ChatGPT Could Lead a Four-Day Work Week
YouTube: “London School of Economics Professor and Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Christopher Pissarides joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss how the rise of generative AI could lead to a four-day work week and why he thinks the labor market could adapt quickly enough.” Continue Reading
Google Builds on Tech’s Latest Craze With Its Own A.I. Products
Washington Post: “Google is changing the way we search with AI. It could upend the web. Google Search will start answering some queries directly by generating its own results — a move dreaded by publishers and bloggers..” The New York Times: “On Wednesday [May 10, 2023], at its annual conference in Mountain View, Calif., the… Continue Reading
