UK Law Gazette Article: Generative AI: a jetpack for legal

Well worth a read if you have the time.

Here’s the introduction

Will generative AI and innovative text solutions power the first robot lawyers, or supercharge their human colleagues?

The last few weeks have seen a huge amount of speculation across the tech industry – including legal tech – around OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an AI text generator based on the company’s GPT-3.5 (Generative Pretrained Transformer) language processing model that was released on 30 November 2022.

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ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) system that writes short responses to pretty much any question you ask it. It can also write technical articles, scripts and poems and generate computer code. You can try the (free) public version here.

ChatGPT was trained using massive text databases from the internet (around 300 billion words) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), where human trainers input questions and assess/correct/rank the output. The model has been fine-tuned multiple times. It continues to learn from experience and feedback, so it is constantly improving.

ChatGPT creates text in response to prompts. If you ask it a specific question it generates a clear, coherent answer, which means it is easily aligned to exam questions and coursework. You can also ask it to rewrite existing text. In the Guardian last week, Alex Hern wrote that academic institutions were already so concerned about AI-generated plagiarism, that they are working on reliable ways to identify AI-generated content and exclude it. And OpenAI was looking at watermarking its output.

Read more at 

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/generative-ai-a-jetpack-for-legal/5114774.article?utm_source=gazette_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MoJ+explores+PI+dual+discount+rates+%7c+Partner%27s+%c2%a35m+payday+%7c+Costs%3a+2023+roller+coaster+ride_01%2f17%2f2023