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October 2019
Sunday evening, OpenAI launched ‘deep research’ in ChatGPT, that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. It accomplishes in minutes what would take a human many hours.
I read an article from the Mayo Clinic Insider, yesterday, that got me thinking about data from legal blogs and articles being used to help lawyers do a better job for their clients.
When Doctor David Jones, was a med student at Georgetown, his grandmother developed Alzheimer’s. She had anosognosia, meaning she didn’t know
For too long, legal research companies have relied on resources such as law reviews, law journals, treatises and legal periodicals as their leading source of information beyond primary law.
While these publications have their place in more of an academic and theory context, they fall short in addressing the practical, real-time needs of legal professionals
Could we create a domain-specific LLM by training a ChatGPT-like model on a curated dataset of legal blogs?
Such a model could serve as a powerful knowledge base for the public, legal professionals and businesses.
We’ve got a start on the Open Legal Blog Archive backed by LexBlog with over 54,000 authors and 806,000 blog
The adoption of legal technology – even legal blogging – has historically been slow in the legal field—but not so with artificial intelligence (AI).
Last month, the Illinois Supreme Court took a step forward by releasing its policy on AI use in courts, effective January 1. With appropriate boundaries, the Court’s policy embraces AI as
I founded LexBlog because blogging democratized legal publishing. Caring lawyers with a passion for sharing their knowledge on niche areas of the law finally had a personal printing press at their fingertips—a tool that could publish to the Internet in no time at all.
It was a revolution in efficiency compared to trying to find
When searching for information, of late, I’ve turned to ChatGPT, not Google.
Restaurant recommendations in downtown Seattle, identifying SaaS-based education platforms suitable for LexBlog’s user education, understanding the causes of Lucky’s eye infection (knows my retriever’s name) and travel destinations in Mexico I would like.
The depth and personalization of the information provided was spot
As someone who has spent years using a news aggregator, now Feedly, to discover and share niche related news, information and insight, I’ve always valued platforms that allow me to engage and connect with others via the sharing of what I’ve found.
Lately, much of what I am following is on AI in publishing—and I’ve
Google shared today that enterprise search systems are no longer limited to keyword-based queries. AI now allows people to use conversational prompts, images, audio, and video to quickly access internal data, tailored to specific roles and industries.
For lawyers, this advancement has profound implications for how they engage with legal blogs and secondary law content—especially
Dr. Traynor Hansen, an assistant professor of English at Seattle Pacific University, is breaking new ground.
As reported by Savannah Welch of KING 5 News here in Seattle, Hansen is the first at the university to bring generative AI tools like ChatGPT into first year writing classes.
Instead of viewing AI as a threat,