Richard Susskind’s new book How to Think About AI has a warning for professionals:
How To Think About AI
Professionals see much greater scope for AI in disciplines other than their own. Doctors are quick to suggest that AI has
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The new book AI Snake Oil calls out the major “hype superspreaders” fueling today’s AI bubble:
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With the selection of Big Thinker Cory Doctorow this year ABA Techshow continued its practice of featuring brilliant keynote speakers. Longtime Internet users will recognize the pattern Doctorow described. AOL became worthless. Yahoo became irrelevant. The content-to-ad ratio on Facebook…
A warning from Richard Susskind’s How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed:
We’re still warming up. In not many years, our current technologies will look primitive, much as our 1980s kit appears antiquated today. [The current…
In the Kennedy-Mighell Report Episode 300, What’s Happening in LegalTech Other than AI? Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell had some good ideas in response to my recent question about where to find prompt libraries. It’s good to have starting points,…
My review of Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor’s new book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference is available at LLRX.com. The bottom line:
AI Snake Oil is a crucial guide…
Reading law review articles is usually pretty low on my priority list, but I’m making an exception for Carolyn Elefant’s Energy Law Journal law article “Generative AI for the Energy Law Practitioner.” There’s more info on LinkedIn. The…
My review of Richard Susskind’s excellent new book, How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed is now available at AttorneyAtWork.com. Here is the conclusion:
With over 500 generative AI apps for lawyers cataloged by LegalTech Hub…
Carolyn Elefant has the receipts:
“It does not bode well for #legaltech that my $20/month ChatGPT subscription can give me a correct Bluebook citation for a public utilities commission order when my $270/month LexisNexis subscription cannot.”
As someone once…
Are Jessica Aries‘ prompts the best of all possible prompts to promote law firms to possible clients in AI output? Probably not, but they are the best I have seen. She describes them as:
Two plain-language ChatGPT prompts…