Preface. For background on the story, see my non-fiction article, GPT-4 Breakthrough: Emerging Theory of Mind Capabilities in AI. To create this story, I had ChatGPT read this article and the underlying scientific paper...more
Michal Kosinski, a computational psychologist at Stanford, has uncovered a groundbreaking capability in GPT-4.0: the emergence of Theory of Mind (ToM). ToM is the cognitive ability to infer another person’s mental state based...more
Political polarization in the United States has reached unprecedented levels, threatening the nation’s social fabric and democratic processes. To tackle this growing crisis, this article proposes a streamlined, three-phase,...more
11/26/2024
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Community Protections ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
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Leadership ,
Machine Learning ,
Political Association ,
Political Expression ,
Presidential Elections ,
Strategic Planning
Generative AI is transforming the landscape of legal technology, offering unprecedented opportunities to automate tasks and streamline complex workflows. Yet, designing AI tools that truly meet the needs of legal...more
11/12/2024
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While almost everyone is panicking about a potential robot apocalypse, Dario Amodei, the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic (“Claude”), is explaining how AI might compress 100 years of medical progress into a decade, cure mental...more
11/1/2024
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Automation Systems ,
Discovery ,
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Health Technology ,
Healthcare ,
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Machine Learning ,
Mental Health ,
Risk Management ,
Technology Sector
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a tool for automating mundane tasks—it’s now stepping into arenas traditionally dominated by human judgment and empathy. One of the most intriguing applications of AI is in dispute...more
10/30/2024
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Dispute Resolution ,
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Mediation ,
Mediators
The future of Artificial Intelligence isn’t just on the horizon—it’s already transforming industries and reshaping how businesses operate. But with this rapid evolution comes new challenges. Ethical concerns, privacy risks,...more
10/22/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Automation Systems ,
Bias ,
Corporate Governance ,
Data Protection ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
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Ethics ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Human Rights ,
Innovative Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
OECD ,
Popular ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Sustainability ,
Technology Sector ,
Transparency
Harvard and Wharton Study Answers Questions of Whether AI Friendship Chatbots Reduce Loneliness Better Than…? Watching television? … Yes! Chatting with AI is a better antidote to loneliness than watching YouTube videos....more
Imagine standing on a razor-thin line—one step forward, and you unlock unprecedented legal capabilities; one misstep, and you fall into a chasm of costly errors. This is the reality legal professionals face as they begin to...more
10/9/2024
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Technology-Assisted Review
In his latest essay, The Intelligence Age, Sam Altman envisions a future where ChatGPT and other AI technologies rapidly transform the world for the better. He projects that the exponential growth we’ve seen in generative AI...more
10/3/2024
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This is the conclusion to a two part article. Please read Part One first. There must be legal recourse to stop this kind of fraud and so protect our basic freedoms. People must have good cause to believe in our judicial...more
9/20/2024
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Deep Fake ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronic Evidence ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Federal Rules of Evidence ,
Juror ,
Legal Ethics ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Mitigation
On April 19, 2024, the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules for federal courts faced a critical question: Does AI-generated evidence, including deepfakes, demand new rules? The Committee’s surprising answer—’not yet.’ Was...more
9/17/2024
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Deep Fake ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronic Evidence ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Expert Witness ,
Federal Rules of Evidence ,
Juror ,
Legal Ethics ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Mitigation
Search engines based on Generative AI, known as Generative Search Engines (“GSE”), provide actual answers to user queries, not just website links. These links suggest dozens, hundreds, if not thousands of websites where...more
9/5/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Innovative Technology ,
Keyword Search ,
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Machine Learning ,
Monopolization ,
Search Engines ,
Technology-Assisted Review
AI has the potential to transform the criminal justice system through its ability to process vast datasets, recognize patterns, and predict outcomes. However, this potential comes with a profound responsibility: ensuring that...more
8/29/2024
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American Bar Association (ABA) ,
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Case Management ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
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Discovery ,
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Evidence ,
Innovative Technology ,
Legal Ethics ,
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Technology-Assisted Review
Ethan Mollick, a Professor at Wharton who teaches entrepreneurship and innovation, has written an insightful book on generative AI, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Portfolio, April 2, 2024). This article aims to...more
A computer capable of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), if ever created, will be the greatest invention in history. It will be far more transformative than the printing press or the wheel. Unlike narrow AI, which excels...more
8/9/2024
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Technology-Assisted Review
Imagine waking up with a new idea that compels you to create a video by lunchtime, showcasing AI entities—a student and a teacher—engaged in real-time, spoken dialogue. This unexpected inspiration struck me recently,...more
Bill Gates has insider knowledge on the future of generative AI. He predicts there will be ‘two more turns of the crank’ on scaling, with the next ‘big frontier‘ being ‘metacognition.’ Gates describes ChatGPT’s metacognitive...more
7/25/2024
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Bill Gates ,
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Ray Kurzweil is a great thinker and prophet of a golden age of AI. According to Bill Gates: “Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of AI.” That means we all damn well better read his new book of...more
I continue to be troubled about AI Sycophantism. What is that? The tendency of generative AI to agree with the user, to respond in a way that is aligned with the user’s biases, errors and hallucinations. In other words, the...more
7/8/2024
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One of the most important emergent intelligence abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT is its bizarre ability to split into different sub-personalities, like different minds, and then speak with each other. They can even be made to...more
6/28/2024
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The Eleventh Circuit published a ground breaking Concurring Opinion on May 28, 2024 by Judge Kevin C. Newsom on the use of generative AI to help decide contract interpretation issues. Snell v. United Specialty Ins. Co., 2024...more
Ralph Losey’s custom GPT, Panel of AI Experts for Lawyers, was tested again to evaluate its effectiveness on ChatGPT4o Omni. This time an entirely new topic was selected for the AI panelists to discuss, AI Mentors for...more
6/3/2024
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Technology-Assisted Review ,
Young Lawyers
Ralph Losey thought he was done with this series, but then OpenAI released a new improved version of ChatGPT, the Omni version 4o. That meant he had to test again, to see if and how his custom GPT Panel of AI Experts for...more
5/29/2024
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In Part One of this article the AI panel of experts procedure was demonstrated and readers were shown how it can be used for education and brainstorming. Evidence that AI Expert Panels Could Soon Replace Human Panelists or is...more