Alex and Emily are joined by law and technology scholar Kendra Albert for a conversation about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and how we do and don't measure someone's ability to practice law.

References:
Social Science Research Network paper “written” by ChatGPT:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4294197

Joe Wanzala, “ChatGPT is ideal for eDiscovery”:
https://nlsblog.org/2023/02/21/chatgpt-implications-for-criminal-defense-litigation-practice/

Legal applications for ChatGPT:
Shot: https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-could-pass-bar-exam-ai-researchers-say/
Chaser: https://www.theonion.com/chatgpt-forced-to-take-bar-exam-even-though-dream-was-t-1850036337

AI for law:
https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/370354-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-in-law-firms

“AI can legally run a company”:
https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1622319172955901952

Generative AI Is Coming for the Lawyers:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/generative-ai-is-coming-for-the-lawyers

“This is a decision by a Colombian court in Cartagena (dated January, 30, 2023).
As far as we know, it is the first time that a judicial decision has been taken by explicitly resorting to #ChatGPT @sama @OpenAI. The Court poses a series of specific questions to #ChatGPT":
https://twitter.com/ethics_law/status/1628793562698510344

"Don't Be A Lawyer" song:

Rep. Ted Lieu introduces legislation written by
https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-lieu-introduces-first-federal-legislation-ever-written-artificial

DoNotPay offers money to anyone willing to use their AI to argue in court: https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1612312707398795264?s=20&t=g6_oG7cPzEVX5H36DoHtNQ

Vanderbilt University responds to MSU shooting with e-mail written using ChatGPT:
https://vanderbilthustler.com/2023/02/17/peabody-edi-office-responds-to-msu-shooting-with-email-written-using-chatgpt/

Science fiction magazine closes submissions due to LLM spam:
https://twitter.com/ShackletonCI/status/1627730312925966336

The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23):
https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23

Journalist Dave Lee's Signal number given out by ChatGPT:
https://mastodon.social/@daveleeFT/109876410735127795

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Music: Toby Menon.
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Dave Lee

2023-02-16 20:56:14

Having fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.