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Bar Battle of the Bots – Part Four: Birth of Scorpio

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

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Custom GPTs: Why Constant Updating Is Essential for Relevance and Performance

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

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Bar Battle of the Bots – Part Two

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

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Bar Battle of the Bots – Part One

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

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Breaking New Ground: Evaluating the Top AI Reasoning Models of 2025

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

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Breaking the AI Black Box: How DeepSeek’s Deep-Think Forced OpenAI’s Hand

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

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The Human Edge: How AI Can Assist But Never Replace

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

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Quantum Leap: Google Claims Its New Quantum Computer Provides Evidence That We Live in a Multiverse

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

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Singularity Advocate Series #1: AI with a Mind of Its Own, On Trial for its Life

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

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dataverse: Episode 1 – Surviving Conference Cosmos & AI Asteroids

Welcome to the Dataverse Cat Casey: Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dataverse! If you’re stepping into the legal tech universe for the first time, don’t panic—we’re here to help you navigate the infinite (and...more

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GPT-4 Breakthrough: Emerging Theory of Mind Capabilities in AI

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

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Designing Generative AI for Legal Professionals: Key Principles and Best Practices

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

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Dario Amodei’s Essay on AI, ‘Machines of Loving Grace,’ Is Like a Breath of Fresh Air

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

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Can AI Replace Human Mediators? Groundbreaking Study Reveals Surprising Results

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

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The Future of AI Is Here—But Are You Ready? Learn the OECD’s Blueprint for Ethical AI

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

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Loneliness Pandemic: Can Empathic AI Friendship Chatbots Be the Cure?

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

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Legal Professionals Should Embrace Generative AI Now and Join a New Era of Co-Intelligence

Generative AI is transforming legal practice, offering tools that legal professionals cannot afford to ignore. This technology is reshaping decision-making and workflow, as I have seen firsthand while teaching judges and...more

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Navigating the AI Frontier: Balancing Breakthroughs and Blind Spots

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

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have taken many industries by storm. In a recent McKinsey survey, 72% of respondents across all industries have adopted AI for at least one business function, up from 55%...more

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Can AI Really Save the Future? A Lawyer’s Take on Sam Altman’s Optimistic Vision

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

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Generative Search Engines: Providing Answers Not Links

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

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Prosecutors and AI: Navigating Justice in the Age of Algorithms

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

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Artificial General Intelligence, If Attained, Will Be the Greatest Invention of All Time

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

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Innovating AI Communication: Real-Time Conversations Between Different ChatGPTs

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

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Bill Gates on the Next ‘Big Frontier’ of Generative AI: Programming Metacognition Strategies into ChatGPT

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

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