142 | 🔓🔑 In-house Unlocks AI Micro-Gains

In today’s Brainyacts:

1. Meet Mindy - your inbox’s AI assistant

2. In-house counsel discovers micro gains of ChatGPT

3. OpenAI and The Free Law Project and more AI model news

4. One dude. AI. And 5000 job applications and other related news

5. An AI palate cleanser

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Lead Memo

📧📥 GenAI interfaces move to your inbox

This is not an advertisement. It is an example of how interactions with generative AI will and are becoming more seamless and being embedded into our daily workflows. Attaching to our already firmly established routines - such as our inbox.

Mindy is a Generative AI service that you interact with via email. Below is a screenshot of what I asked Mindy to do.

Minutes later, I received

Now yes, I could’ve likely accomplished the same things using one of the leading GenAI tools on the web. But they make you go to their site, log in, and add context to get a response. Because Mindy will ‘live’ in your email, it will get to know you over time (via your email address) and learn how to write, sound, and interact with you. Cool.

Try it for free at https://mindy.com/. Once you sign up you will get the following email.

Have fun!

Spotlight

🧱🪜 Accretive Micro-gains. Or why you should stop looking for enterprise generative AI solutions and just get hyper-pragmatic.

Read the short use case by an in-house lawyer who was sick of tackling a nagging issue whenever he wrote emails. Like many, he was word-smithing emails for tone as well as to help ensure non-native English speakers would understand it. This is an important task but also a time-suck.

So he put his fingers on the keyboard. Fired up ChatGPT. And then Wow!

Shared by Cecilia Ziniti.

AI Model Notables

► OpenAI has partnered with non-profit organization Free Law Project, which aims to democratize access to legal understanding by including its large collection of legal documents in AI training. Now they want to partner with you and your data.

► OpenAI says ChatGPT downtime caused by targeted attack - and why Sudanese attackers did it

► Samsung developing an “on-device” LLM (“Gauss”) to be embedded in future products

► Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus'

► Google's AI-powered search feature goes global with a 120-country expansion. Like a mini-Bard window tucked into the generated summary, the new feature enables users to drill down on a subject without leaving the results page or even needing to type their queries out.

► Siri revamp is coming with tons of AI integrations & features

► Meta bars political advertisers from using generative AI ad tools

News You Can Use:

➭ FTC takes shots at AI in rare filing to US Copyright Office

➭ In AI Training Case brought by Thomson Reuters, court denies summary judgment

➭ Unemployed man uses AI to apply for 5,000 jobs, gets 20 interviews

➭ Hollywood actors secure safeguards around AI use on screen

➭ The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Report: Embracing innovation, adapting to change is available. Here are some GenAI findings:

• 73% of lawyers expect to integrate generative AI into their legal work in the next 12 months

• There's a lack of consensus about generative AI being an opportunity or a threat

• Almost three quarters of lawyers say they understand how generative AI can be applied to their work

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.