100 | 🫵 Your Turn

In today’s Brainyacts we:

1. give you your 100-day challenge

2. challenge law firms as well (w/ video)

3. ask 8 questions while watching a product demo

4. see US Senators trying to snare generative AI

5. go from AI-generated motorbikes to laws

6. see “visual search” being rolled out in Bing Chat

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🫵 Your Turn
🙌🏅 Your 100-Day Challenge: Influence the Future of Legal AI

Dear Reader,

The time has come for you to play an active role in the evolving landscape of generative AI in legal. Over the past 100 days, we’ve explored together the pragmatic use of generative AI in global legal markets. Now, as we gear up for the next phase, I want to challenge you.

Your 100-Day Challenge

For the next 100 days, I want you to not just be passive consumers of information, but active contributors to our shared knowledge pool. I want you to take on the challenge of exploring, discovering, and sharing your insights into some of the most pressing themes in legal AI.

Here are some of the topics we'll be exploring together:

1. AI in Legislation (As in drafting and making it)

2. Generative AI and Legal Marketing (High-performance disruption)

3. Legal Education and AI (What and who should be taught)

4. AI Agents in Legal Services (Autonomous services)

5. Low-risk Generative AI Experiments (Getting started)

6. Pragmatic AI Strategy (Get smart, then build)

7. AI and Legal Business Models (Legal services design)

8. AI Ethics, Compliance, and Governance (Protecting without fear)

9. AI in the Courtroom (current and future state)

10. Democratization of Legal Services through AI (Access and opportunities)

11. Client Relationships in the AI Era (Interaction, retention, attraction)

12. more . . .

This is your opportunity to help shape the conversation, to influence how we think about and understand these issues.

How to Contribute

Ahead of each monthly deep-dive briefing, I’ll release the theme and invite you to share your thoughts, ideas, experiences, and insights related to that theme. This could be in the form of:

• Short insights or opinions (just send me an informal email, LinkedIn message, DM, or whatever)

• Case studies from your work

• Reviews or experiences with relevant AI tools

• Articles, research, or resources you've found useful

• Predictions or models you believe may shape the future

You're not alone in this challenge. We're a community, all exploring these topics together.

Your contributions will receive due credit, helping you build your reputation as a thought leader and an authority on AI in legal within your professional network. Plus, the best insights will be featured in the deep-dive briefings, offering you a chance to influence the broader discourse.

I encourage you to see this not just as a challenge, but as a journey of growth and discovery in your career. Over these 100 days, I hope you will not only deepen your understanding of AI's role in law but also influence how your peers, colleagues, and the wider legal community approach and understand these issues.

📣 So, are you up for the challenge? If you are, please like or comment on this LinkedIn post.

Let's make the next 100 days a time of active learning, sharing, and growth for all of us.

🚨🏗️ Law Firm 100-Day Challenge - Build a Plugin

[be sure to watch the video below regardless of if you are firm]

Law firms, the larger the firm - the more pronounced this problem is, are notorious for having 1000s of web pages as part of their public-facing website. They publish so much content! From blog to bios, podcasts to guides, news to analysis. It is all there. But so few people use this content. Why? A big reason is that it is so hard to find. Most firms have a search bar - but these things are not high-performing search tools.

Enter generative AI. You can build a ChatGPT plugin fairly easily in under 100 days (likely less!). Doing so is low-risk and high-reward. It will 100x the search experience on your website and allow people to find what they are looking for and need.

In this video, I walk you through some examples using the improved Google search with generative AI (access via Google labs - get on the waitlist here)

So, as I complete my 100-day writing challenge, I want to challenge firms to take the next 100 days (or less) to build their own ChatGPT plug-in.

In-house teams? You likely have an internal webpage for the legal function so you might be able to try this on. If not, why not challenge one of your outside counsel firms? Ask to be a part of the project so you can learn too.

Let me know if you accept this challenge, please!

⏳😰 Can You Quantify How Much Time This Saved?

This is in no way an advertisement for this product. But it is a terrific video that demonstrates the potential impact of generative AI on work performed within legal services.

As you watch this video, ask yourself these questions like I did.

1. What is “practicing law” and what is not, in this example?

2. How many hours of lawyer, paralegal, or assistant time just got displaced?

3. How much time was saved by aggregating often fragmented tasks into one singular workflow/window?

4. Is a confidence score missing here? Granted I believe the tech will get to a place we do not need these signals but today both tech and humans struggle to define and validate the accuracy of AI responses.

5. How does this not force billing to non-hourly arrangements?

6. Is this an unfair advantage for lawyers who can afford these tools?

7. Does a lawyer now have an obligation not just to review final work product, but also the prompts or queries made into generative AI tools?

8. Who or what is liable for errors due to missed elements that generative AI tools did not return to the user and the user has no way of knowing what was not selected? See #4 above re: confidence scores.

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News you can Use: 

Exempting Generative AI From Section 230

Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have jointly proposed a bill seeking to modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law currently shielding internet platforms from liability for content created by third parties.

The bipartisan bill aims to strip AI-generated content, like those made by GPT-like software, of these protections, a subject presently in a legal gray area. This move comes as part of the first wave of anticipated AI-related legislation, with more being developed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in collaboration with other offices and industry experts.

AI Finds Better Way to Engineer Motorbikes; Could It Also Find Better Ways of Creating Legislation?

Artificial intelligence is accelerating the design process for Lightning Motorcycles, a California-based electric bike manufacturer. Through the use of a generative AI AutoCAD system developed by Autodesk, the company is significantly reducing design time and optimizing component structures. This innovative approach can serve as a unique analogy to the process of creating and writing laws, given its similar iterative and collaborative nature.

Just as this generative AI draws from a vast database of options to optimize designs beyond the limitations of human engineers, the process of law creation too, draws from historical legislation, legal theories, societal norms, and international law to establish new directives. Lightning Motorcycles has used AI to refine the design of a suspension swingarm, making it lighter, stronger, and less resource-intensive. This resonates with the law creation process, where many iterations and adjustments are made based on numerous factors, aiming for laws that are effective, equitable, and efficient.

In both scenarios, there's a continuous interplay between human and system - engineers and AI in Lightning's case, lawmakers and legal frameworks in the legislative process. These parallels suggest that as we move further into the AI-driven future, such systems could also play an increasingly significant role in complex processes like legislation, just as they're doing in engineering.

Searching Based on Pics

In a pioneering move, Microsoft has begun testing image recognition and visual search capabilities within its Bing Chat platform. With this feature, users can upload an image and ask questions about it, a functionality already found in Bing's Image search, named visual search. Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, revealed that these features are currently being tested on 5% of all searches, aiming to ensure quality, safety, and alignment before a wider rollout. As Bing integrates image recognition into its chat feature, this marks an intriguing evolution of search engine capabilities and user interaction.

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DISCLAIMER: None of this is legal advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not legal advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any legal decisions. Please /be careful and do your own research.8