201 | 👨🏾‍⚖️ ⚖️ Judge admits using ChatGPT to decide a case

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1. Take survey - get results

2. Serious Siri upgrades coming

3. Your Zoom digital twin can attend and make decisions and other AI model news

4. Judge uses ChatGPT to decide case and other AI-related content

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Spotlight

🍏 🚀 Apple’s Siri to get major AI boost

With the upcoming AI-powered upgrade, Siri will have several enhanced capabilities. Here's a detailed overview of what Siri will be able to do:

1. Control Individual App Functions: Users will be able to control specific functions within apps using voice commands. For instance, Siri will be able to open documents, organize notes, manage emails, and summarize articles within the Apple News app.

2. Analyze User Behavior: Siri will use large language models and generative AI to analyze user behavior on their devices. This analysis will allow Siri to automatically enable relevant features within apps, offering a more personalized user experience.

3. Chained Commands: Users will be able to chain multiple requests together, enabling a series of tasks to be executed seamlessly and intuitively. This feature will greatly enhance Siri's utility and user experience.

4. Initial App Support: Initially, the revamped Siri will support Apple's own apps. However, there are plans to expand this support to include hundreds of different commands and third-party apps.

5. Contextual Understanding: Siri will have improved contextual understanding, recognizing people, events, and locations to generate more accurate and relevant responses.

6. New Features:

   • Voice Memo Transcriptions: Automatically transcribe voice memos.

   • Automated Message Replies: Respond to messages using AI-generated replies.

   • Advanced Photo Editing: Perform complex photo edits using voice commands.

7. Greymatter Catch Up: A new feature that allows users to request a summary of recent notifications. This will help users stay updated without having to manually check each app.

Stay tuned for more as Apple’s WWDC event is next week.

AI Model Notables

► Microsoft's new Recall feature in Windows is easy to hack and gain access to sensitive data like your passwords and account numbers

► LexisNexis plans to immediately incorporate Henchman's document enrichment capabilities into products such as Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create

► OpenAI insiders warn of a ‘reckless’ race for dominance

► Amazon's AI 'Private Investigator' flags damaged products, improving the customer experience and preventing waste 

► OpenAI’s ‘Sky’ sounds a lot like ScarJo, according to voice researchers, but also sounds like two other actresses

► Google addresses the “odd results” coming in from its AI Search Overviews

► Soon your Zoom digital AI twin will be able to attend meetings and make decisions on your behalf

► A new AI tool that lets users create animated episodes using just a few words

News You Can Use:

➭ Eleventh Circuit Judge admits to using ChatGPT to help decide a case and urges other judges and lawyers to follow suit OR is a trampoline considered landscaping?

➭ Based on my essay [Brainyact edition #197] on AI mentors, this group decided to test the “AI Mentors for New Attorneys” capabilities of GPT-4o

➭ Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead

➭ Interesting study on how teens (ages 14 to 22) use generative AI

➭ A quarter of U.S. teachers say AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education

➭ France is aiming to become a global AI superpower — but not without help from U.S. Big Tech

➭ Hugging Face’s global head of policy on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends

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.