Introducing AI Prompt Worksheets for the Legal Profession
I spent the first week of January attending the American Association of Law Schools’ Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. I was really impressed with all of the thoughtful AI sessions, including two at...
View ArticleBirth of the Summarizer Pro GPT: Please Work for Me, GPT
Last week, my plan was to publish a blog post about creating a GPT goofily self-named Summarizer Pro to summarize articles and organize citation information in a specific format for inclusion in a...
View ArticleBeyond Legal Documentation: Other Business Uses of Generative AI
I have been listening to and enjoyed thinking about and participating in conversations about how generative AI is going to be integrated into the practice of law. Most of these conversations surround...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries Roundtable Events
South Central Roundtable OU Law volunteered to host the South Central “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries” roundtable and so I was fortunate enough to be allowed to attend. This is...
View ArticleDoes ChatGPT-4 Have Dementia?
Is it just me, or has ChatGPT-4 taken a nosedive when it comes to legal research and writing? There has been a noticeable decline in its ability to locate primary authority on a topic, analyze a fact...
View ArticleWelcome Perplexity AI to the Law Library! Move Over Google
On a couple of podcasts, I’ve heard a lot of hype about Perplexity AI and how it could be a big competitor to Google. Even though I really like new, generative AI things, it still sometimes takes...
View ArticleMove Over Law Professors? AI Likes to Write Law Review Articles Too!
While taking a well-deserved break from the grind of writing memos and analyzing the news of the day, Claude (aka the illustrious author Claudia Trey) penned a 77-page extensively footnoted law review...
View ArticleThe Human Side of AI: LLMs Can Persuade and Be Persuaded, Just Like Us
When it comes to interacting with others, we humans often find ourselves influenced by persuasion. Whether it’s a friend persistently urging us to reveal a secret or a skilled salesperson convincing us...
View ArticleRAG Systems Can Still Hallucinate
A few months ago, a law professor posted on Twitter about a hallucination he observed in Lexis+ AI. He asked “What cases have applied Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College to the use of...
View ArticleExploring AI’s Frontier: A Mysterious gpt2-chatbot, LLM Leaderboard Rankings,...
The world of AI chatbots is a whirlwind of innovation, with new developments and surprises seemingly emerging every week! Since the end of April, one particular model, modestly gpt2-chatbot, captured...
View ArticleAALS Presentation: Improving the Creation of Legal Scholarship with...
On June 12, 2024, we (Sarah Gotschall, Rebecca Fordon, and Sean Harrington) had the pleasure of presenting Improving the Creation of Legal Scholarship with Generative AI as part of the Association of...
View ArticleA Legal Research Prompting Guide and Generative AI System Comparison Exercise
I’m sharing a guide and exercise I’ve developed for my legal research courses. This Google spreadsheet provides instructions on crafting AI prompts for legal research and includes a practical exercise...
View ArticleAnnouncing the AI Law Librarians Prompt Library
We’re excited to announce a new resource for our community: the AI Law Librarians Prompt Library, a place for law librarians (and the legal community at large) to share and collect useful prompts....
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