The rise of legal AI has sparked a familiar fear: that our hard-won expertise might be absorbed into machines. That lawyers will be off-loaded—our reasoning encoded, commodified, and reduced to prompts. That we’ll be...more
5/30/2025
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Will the challenger, Scorpion, defeat the reigning champ, Orion? Or will Orion keep his title as the world’s best AI legal reasoner? Read about my experiment and find out....more
5/21/2025
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Dario Amodei, Chief Scientist and CEO of Anthropic, has written another important article you should read: The Urgency of Interpretability. He is very concerned that scientists have created a powerful new technology that no...more
5/15/2025
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When zero becomes one, possibility leaps out of the void, as Peter Thiel champions in his book, Zero to One. But what happens when the entrepreneur is foolish and pushes his scientists to open a Pandora’s box? What happens...more
5/8/2025
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The AI bot battles rage on. This round, we test OpenAI’s newest contender, released April 16, 2025: ChatGPT o3. Not to be confused with its leaner sibling—ChatGPT o3-mini, which debuted in January. When we tested that old...more
4/30/2025
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If you’re afraid of artificial intelligence, you’re not alone, and you’re not wrong to be cautious. AI is no longer science fiction. It’s embedded in the apps we use, the decisions that affect our lives, and the tools...more
4/24/2025
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been immersed in the necessary but time-consuming task of updating my Custom GPTs—AI tools I designed using OpenAI’s GPT Builder platform. Some are private, tailored to my work as a lawyer,...more
4/21/2025
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The battle continues. In Part One, we examined how six advanced AI reasoning models from OpenAI and Google tackled a real Bar Exam essay question. Some impressed, others faltered, and one emerged as the clear winner—ChatGPT...more
3/10/2025
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The legal world is watching AI with both excitement and skepticism. Can today’s most advanced reasoning models think like a lawyer? Can they dissect complex fact patterns, apply legal principles, and construct a persuasive...more
2/28/2025
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The year 2025 has brought us closer than ever to the dawn of artificial general intelligence, with AI systems now capable of reasoning on par with humans—or even surpassing them in specific domains. In this article, I examine...more
2/21/2025
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DeepSeek’s Deep-Think feature takes a small but meaningful step toward building trust between users and AI. By displaying its reasoning process step by step, Deep-Think allows users to see how the AI forms its conclusions,...more
2/4/2025
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The rise of artificial intelligence has evoked both awe and apprehension. AI’s capabilities are undeniably astonishing. It can converse and respond to us like a human, answer questions—often with impressive accuracy—write...more
1/29/2025
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In the history of technological revolutions, there are moments that challenge not only our understanding of what is possible but the very nature of reality itself. Google’s latest refinement to its quantum computer, Willow,...more
1/8/2025
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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