129 | 🗑️ 🔥 How the internet will die

In today’s Brainyacts:

1. The law firm AI mentor program

2. You can literally chat with ChatGPT, and it chats back!

3. Giants of AI forming with Amazon stepping up and other AI-related news

4. How the internet will die and other news you can use

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Lead Memo

🤓 💾 An AI mentor for new associates.

The following is a note I received from one of my former law students who is a 1st year at a mid-size firm. This person is highly motivated and intelligent and was on top of things in their law school career. I say that because when you read the note, you could easily start blaming them. Trust me. They are not to blame.

This note could likely have been written by 1000s of 1st-year associates right now. New lawyer development has always been hit or miss. Now in the post-pandemic era trends such as virtual working conditions have exacerbated it.

This reinforces the desperate need we have to use Generative AI to build teaching and tutoring tools for law students, new lawyers, and seasoned lawyers. We can do this. In fact, someone already has - just not in legal.

Dig into Khanmigo from Khan Academy

What is Khanmigo?

• An AI tutor that is highly interactive and coaches - does not allow cheating.

• An 8^th grader reviews Khanmigo. This a great read.

Spotlight

OpenAI Releases Banger Updates!

I don’t have access yet but I cannot wait.

ChatGPT unveiled a host of updates including voice and image recognition, marking a significant stride towards creating a more interactive and intuitive user experience (similar to how we currently interact with Siri & Google Assistant).

It Talks Back to you:

• You can use voice to engage in a conversation.

• It talks back in one of five different voices.

It Can See images:

• It can now understand images, photographs, screenshots, and text documents.

• Users can discuss multiple images or use the new drawing tool to guide the assistant.

Additional notes:

• Spotify's Voice Translation is running a pilot for translating podcast/webcast audio.

• This is all rolling out over the next two weeks for Plus and Enterprise users.

• Voice will be coming to both iOS and Android, and images will be available on all platforms.

Here is a demo of some of this:

AI Model Notables

Along with the Big News above . . . .

• OpenAI has a powerful internal model according to a user who got access to their internal models.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says its Copilot AI assistant will be 'as significant as the PC'.

Microsoft Bing to gain more personalized answers, support for DALLE-E 3 and watermarked AI images.

Amazon makes huge investment into Anthropic. Earlier this year Google invested more than $300 million in Anthropic, but the Amazon deal is significantly larger.

Meta’s AI Chatbot gets sassy in order to attract younger users.

Meta’s defense in AI copyright lawsuit.

News You Can Use:

➭ How the internet will die.

➭ US Mayors looking to incorporate GenAI to improve public services. (event)

➭ Getty Images launches an AI-powered image generator with copyright indemnification.

➭ Why naming AI as inventor on patents doesn't compute.

➭ Authors' lawsuit against OpenAI could 'fundamentally reshape' artificial intelligence, according to experts

➭ Booz Allen, top provider of AI to the US government, invests heavily in AI safeguarding and security

➭ A great conversation with Vinod Kholsa (founder of VC firm Khosla Ventures and successful tech entrepreneur. One of first investors in OpenAI and has interesting insight and remarks on AI and its impact on our lives.

Who is the author, Josh Kubicki?

Some of you know me. Others do not. Here is a short intro. I am a lawyer, entrepreneur, and teacher. I have transformed legal practices and built multi-million dollar businesses. Not a theorist, I am an applied researcher and former Chief Strategy Officer, recognized by Fast Company and Bloomberg Law for my unique work. Through this newsletter, I offer you pragmatic insights into leveraging AI to inform and improve your daily life in legal services.