The Oklahoma Bar Journal September 2023

L aw P ractice T ips

Artificial Intelligence Tools and Tips

By Jim Calloway and Julie Bays

I N AUGUST’S LAW PRACTICE Tips article, “ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and the Lawyer,” 1 we covered the development of AI tools and some challenges they have presented to attorneys who did not appreciate the limitations of ChatGPT. This month, we will look at more AI-powered tools and techniques for using them. DOCUMENT AND DEPOSITION SUMMARIES One thing artificial intelligence does well is summarizing lengthy documents, such as depositions or long court opinions. The Association of Immigration Lawyers of America (AILA) has been experimenting with power ful AI tools in their area of inter est. A recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion, U.S. v. Texas , involved immigration law and was 75 pages long. Their tool quickly prepared a summary of the opinion, just over 14 pages in length. The summary is separated by page numbers in the original opinion so that if one had questions, it would be simple to read the page the summary was created from. Greg Siskind, an attorney in AILA, shared the summary, and I have placed it for download on Dropbox. 2 While many AI tools can create document summaries, browser- based tools are a good place

that you manage on your own or a Google Workspace account for which your administrator has enabled access to Bard. You still can’t access Bard with an account managed by Family Link or with a Google Workspace for Education account designated as under the age of 18. It can be accessed at https://bard.google.com. Google’s Bard is listed as an experiment and readily admits to having limitations and learns from feedback. Bard is a conversational AI model capable of dialog, built on Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). Be aware that Google collects conversations you have with Bard, along with your IP address, feedback and usage information. A subset of conversations is sent to trained reviewers and kept for three years, with automation tools to remove personally identifiable information. Google asks that you please not include information that could identify you or others in Bard conversations. To limit it from using your prompts, you can go to your Google My Activity page 4 to toggle off storing your activity. You can also delete your activity from this page. Bard’s data, unlike ChatGPT, comes from the internet. Crafting good prompts is a skill many of us will be trying to improve.

to begin since they are free. But before we get to those, we should mention Claude. 3 Claude Claude is an advanced natural language chatbot with capabili ties that seem superior to those of ChatGPT. It is available at no cost during its beta phase. What distin guishes Claude from other chatbots is several features that surpass those of ChatGPT, including the ability to analyze documents containing up to 75,000 words and understand and compare multiple documents. Claude’s database knowledge is updated through early 2023, and it supports multiple languages. The platform also demonstrates remark able strengths in advanced reason ing and logic, as well as specialized academic knowledge. BROWSER-BASED AI TOOLS If one wants to have an AI-powered research (not legal research) tool, the best option may be the AI tools built into existing search engines. The lawyer will need to review and revise the settings to share as little of your prompt information as possible.

Google’s Bard Google’s Bard is everyone’s

favorite price – free. To use Bard, you need a personal Google account

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