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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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New Battle of the Bots: ChatGPT 4.5 Challenges Reigning Champ ChatGPT 4o

Two AI heavyweights step into the ring: ChatGPT 4o, the reigning champion of fluency and speed, and the new challenger, ChatGPT 4.5, boasting an upgraded intellect and sharper wit. But which one is truly the best? To find...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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How to Choose the Right Trial Technology Partner

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In 2025, technology holds a well-established place in the legal profession. And even though there are headlines about emerging tech itself being on trial, the pros of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and...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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Why the Release of China’s DeepSeek AI Software Triggered a Stock Market Panic and Trillion Dollar Loss

DeepSeek, a startup AI company owned by a Chinese hedge fund, which is in turn owned by a young AI whiz-kid, Liang Wenfeng, claims that its newly released V-3 software-R1 was trained inexpensively and without using NVIDIA’s...more

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Understanding GenAI Response Limits: What Every Legal Professional Should Know

As some readers will know, we have spent many hours working with Generative AI-based Large Language Models (“LLMs”) like GPT (aka ChatGPT) and Claude. We use both in our DiscoveryPartner® software to summarize and synthesize...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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Is Your eDiscovery Software Keeping Up? Seven Questions To Evaluate Whether It’s Time To Make a Change

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Rapid AI advancements are transforming eDiscovery software. Platforms that fail to incorporate new AI capabilities will leave users with outdated tools that hinder workflows, increase costs, and limit the ability to handle...more

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How Bias Can Influence AI

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One of the biggest barriers to using AI successfully is bias, which is one of the terms we defined last time, as follows: Bias, in a general context, refers to a predisposition or inclination towards a particular viewpoint,...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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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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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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The Rise of Techno-Journalists: Addressing Plagiarism, Patchwriting, and Excessive Aggregation in the Era of LLMs

[EDRM’s Editor’s Note: This article was first published here on July 16, 2024, and EDRM is grateful to Rob Robinson, editor and managing director of Trusted Partner ComplexDiscovery, for permission to republish.] Complex...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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Worrying About Sycophantism: Why I Again Tweaked the Custom GPT ‘Panel of AI Experts for Lawyers’ to Add More Barriers Against...

I continue to be troubled about AI Sycophantism. What is that? The tendency of generative AI to agree with the user, to respond in a way that is aligned with the user’s biases, errors and hallucinations. In other words, the...more

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Flowering Optimism? Profiling Spring 2024 eDiscovery Business Confidence

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: This concise analysis of the Spring 2024 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey critically examines the industry’s current state and future expectations. With contributions from 81 professionals...more

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Evidence that AI Expert Panels Could Soon Replace Human Panelists, or is this just an Art Deco Hallucination? – Part One of Two

Say goodbye to the traditional panel of experts, the ones routinely featured at educational events and conferences worldwide. Say hello to new panels of AI experts: panels in your pocket that you can call upon anytime,...more

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Shifting Left in eDiscovery: Embracing Secure-by-Design and AI for Enhanced Cybersecurity

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Editor’s Note: In this exploration of cybersecurity in the digital era, the article “Shifting Left in eDiscovery: Embracing Secure-by-Design and AI for Enhanced Cybersecurity” considers the crucial intersection of...more

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Blog Summary: Embracing Challenges and Strategies in Legal Vendor Collaborations

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We recently joined a webinar hosted by the EDRM for an insightful session featuring experts Doug Kaminski and Amy Sellars focused on the intricacies of vendor collaboration, legal partnerships, and effective strategies for...more

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Jensen Huang’s Life and Company – NVIDIA: Building Supercomputers Today for Tomorrow’s AI, His Prediction of AGI by 2028 and His...

This is Part Three of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between the elders would slow down AI and the young who would speed it up. Part Two shared the story of the visionary...more

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The Next Five Years in eDiscovery: Market Size Forecast for 2023-2028

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: Within this report lies a nuanced forecast of the eDiscovery market, suggesting its course from 2023 to 2028. While the detailed analysis meticulously outlines the growth in aggregate and...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

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