168 | 🤖 vs. 🧑🏻‍⚖️ Comparing Large Language Models to Lawyers

In today’s Brainyacts:

1. LLMs versus Lawyers - a study

2. Use emojis for better prompt performance

3. Google Gemini (goodbye Bard) and other AI model news

4. The first AI war and other related content

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Lead Memo

🤖 vs. 🧑🏻‍⚖️ Comparing Large Language Models Against Lawyers

A new study was released that highlights the coming impact of AI on certain elements of the legal profession.

It is a short read and instead of summarizing it, I suggest you take 10 minutes to review it.

Below are the key takeaways.

Do LLMs outperform Junior Lawyers and Legal Process Outsourcers in determination and location of legal issues in contracts?

Can LLMs review contracts faster than Junior Lawyers and Legal Process Outsourcers?

Can LLMs review contracts cheaper than Junior Lawyers and Legal Process Outsourcers?

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Spotlight

🥸 🧑🏻‍⚖️ OpenAI Head of Developer Relations on Prompting

For those of you who are new to chatting with AI or have not yet gotten the results you were hoping for, here is a really good tip. Be nice to it.

Yes, it does make a difference. Many people I have taught have remarked how I am always appreciative and polite in my interactions with AI. I joke that it is because when AI takes over the world I want it to remember I was nice to it. But the real reason is that I get better performance out of it.

Hear it for yourself in this clip below.

The second and most important tip is that context is everything when chatting with AI. A perfect example is when we humans casually ask “How’s your day going?” Now we know that this is generally just a polite remark meant to illicit an equally generic response like “fine” or “ok.” There is no context in the question and so there is none in the answer.

But if I had more context about you and what your days are like, I might ask “How is it going with that project you are leading? Any major victories or roadblocks?” Now you would have more context and likely provide me with a more meaningful response.

Watch the full interview below.

AI Model Notables

► Bard is now Gemini - and that’s not all:

• a new app for ‘Gemini’ features easier to access for Android users (iPhone users can access ‘Gemini’ via the iOS Google app).

• ‘Gemini Advanced’—powered by Gemini Ultra 1.0 is available for $20p/m, under a “Google One AI Premium” subscription (which includes 2TB of storage and other perks), which users can use without paying, for 2 months

► AI Images generated on DALL-E now contain the Content Authenticity Tag - C2PA is an open technical standard that allows publishers, companies, and others to embed metadata in media to verify its origin and related information.

► Meta to expand labelling of AI-generated imagery in election packed year

► Apple researchers have released a new open-source AI model that is capable of editing images based on a user's natural language instructions

► OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3

► USPTO refuses OpenAI’s GPT trademark application

► Microsoft’s Super Bowl ad - at a minute long this costs them $14 million to air it during the game - pennies for Microsoft.

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➭ The first AI war: How tech giants turned Ukraine into an AI war lab

➭ Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute

➭ Two Texas companies were behind the AI Joe Biden robocalls 

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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.