Recent AI Developments And The Practice Of Law—An Update

There have been many recent artificial intelligence (AI) developments over the past several weeks that impact the practice of law. Since my article "Recent AI Developments—Can AI Replace Attorneys?" was published on March 14, 2023, a number of new generative AI technologies have been introduced that affect the legal profession. While these technologies still cannot replace attorneys, they provide improved generative AI tools for attorneys to utilize.

OpenAI—the company that created the technology Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT)-3.5 that powers ChatGPT—introduced a new version of the technology on March 14: GPT-4, now available on ChatGPT Plus. Like GPT-3.5, GPT-4 is a generative AI technology that can power chatbots, search engines and other computer systems, and learns by analyzing huge amounts of data from the Internet. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, including text, images, video, audio, code and