How the legal profession could utilize AI in the coming year 

April 24, 2023

JD SUPRA — Generative AI. Bard. Bing AI. Large language models. Artificial intelligence continues to dominate headlines and workplace chats across every industry since OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT in November of 2022. Nowhere was this more evident than at this year’s Legalweek event. The annual conference, which gathers thousands of attorneys, legal practitioners, and eDiscovery providers together in

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Study finds artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT can pass bar exam

March 21, 2023

REUTERS — Artificial intelligence can now outperform most law school graduates on the bar exam, the grueling two-day test aspiring attorneys must pass to practice law in the United States, according to a new study released Wednesday. GPT-4, the upgraded AI model released this week by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, scored 297 on the bar exam in an experiment conducted

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Why law students shouldn’t rely on ChatGPT to write assignments

March 21, 2023

THE NATIONAL JURIST — As a law student, you have a big challenge ahead of you when it comes to writing. You need to learn how to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively if you want to be successful in your legal career. Although it might seem like ChatGPT (or other chatbots) can do the work

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University of Houston Law Center Peter Salib discusses how ChatGPT will change education

March 14, 2023

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The use of artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT will have widespread implications on education and in professional settings, according to University of Houston Law Center Assistant Professor Peter Salib. While ChatGPT has the potential for abuse and inaccuracies, Salib added that when used properly, it can benefit students

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How colleges are responding to the use of ChatGPT by students

March 13, 2023

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT appeared on the scene just three months ago, promising to transform how we write. The chatbot, easy to use and trained on vast amounts of digital text, is now pervasive. Higher education, rarely quick about anything, is still trying to comprehend the scope

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Opinion: Lawyers should embrace artificial intelligence

February 27, 2023

ABA JOURNAL — Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the world in which we work and live. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that AI-related transformation is already happening, and the legal industry is not immune. As I’ve discussed in past columns, there are already many AI-powered technologies available to legal professionals that streamline workflowsand automate tedious

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Opinion: AI can’t replace good lawyers

February 22, 2023

BLOOMBERG LAW — Law professors Deborah Jones Merritt and Mary Lu Bilek assess the implications of ChatGPT’s ability to (almost) pass the bar exam, and what that says about the test as a marker of the ability to effectively practice law. 

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Researchers look at AI program ChatGPT’s ability to pass law school exams

January 31, 2023

REUTERS — ChatGPT cannot yet outscore most law students on exams, new research suggests, but it can eke out a passing grade. A quartet of law professors at the University of Minnesota used the popular artificial intelligence chatbot to generate answers to exams in four courses last semester, then graded them blindly alongside actual students’

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Law professors share concerns over the AI program ChatGPT and cheating

January 18, 2023

REUTERS — The artificial intelligence program ChatGPT came up short last month on the multiple choice portion of the bar exam. Law professors are among those both alarmed and delighted by ChatGPT since its November release. 

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How developments in AI could impact law school curricula

January 18, 2023

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION — The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou.

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