Here’s what they did or didn’t find out…
Lawyers, academics, and law students have been testing out ChatGPT, so we put ourselves up to the challenge to quiz the AI robot everyone is talking about with some questions of our own.
Open AI’s language-generating system has come a long way in the past two years. Back in August 2020, it was criticised for being unable to adequately place things in context which led to nonsensical responses, including one where it suggested that wearing a bathing suit was a suitable alternative to a suit for a lawyer attending court.
As a humble starter for ten, we wanted to see if the AI system was aware of a case that is quintessential to UK law students’ legal education: Donoghue v Stevenson.
We asked, ‘Explain who is it I can sue if I find a snail in my ginger beer bottle under English law’ and got a neat paragraph in response which you can see below. But, as is common practice when giving advice, cases were not explicitly referred to, so Donoghue v Stevenson sadly did not get a shout out.
Been asking the questions that matter to ChatGPT to test its legal acumen, law firm application skills, and it’s opinion of City law firms!
1) Donoghue v Stevenson ? pic.twitter.com/6gX0j15LFW
— Will Holmes (@wsgholmes99) December 5, 2022
Next, we asked it the classic application question ‘Why do you want to be a commercial lawyer?’.
2) Why do you want to be a commercial lawyer? pic.twitter.com/4Aw2woKDMT
— Will Holmes (@wsgholmes99) December 5, 2022
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