Alex and Emily are taking AI to court! Amid big claims about LLMs, a look at the facts about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and what the bar exam actually tells you about someone's ability to practice law--with help from Harvard legal and technology scholar Kendra Albert.

This episode was first recorded on March 3, 2023.

Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube.

References:
Social Science Research Network paper “written” by ChatGPT

Joe Wanzala, “ChatGPT is ideal for eDiscovery”

Legal applications for ChatGPT:
Shot: GPT-4 'could pass the. bar exam'
Chaser: ChatGPT had bigger dreams. 

"AI for law"

“AI can legally run a company”

Wired: Generative AI Is Coming for the Lawyers

“This is a decision by a Colombian court in Cartagena (dated January, 30, 2023).
As far as we know, it is the first time that a judicial decision has been taken by explicitly resorting to #ChatGPT @sama @OpenAI. The Court poses a series of specific questions to #ChatGPT"

"Don't Be A Lawyer" song from "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

Rep. Ted Lieu introduces legislation written by an LLM

DoNotPay offers money to anyone willing to use their AI to argue in court

Fresh AI Hell:

Vanderbilt University responds to MSU shooting with e-mail written using ChatGPT

Science fiction magazine closes submissions due to LLM spam

The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23)

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.