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Document summaries are one of the AI tools lawyers will use – a lot. There is a character limit for a Bard prompt. When prompted to summarize a 10,000-character article, it would only accept about 3,000 characters. However, you can obtain summaries of longer articles posted online by using the prompt “Summarize the article at [link to document].” These are generally quite accurate, but it is possible that AI may add its own “thoughts.” At least with document summaries, you will have the document handy for comparisons. Bing Chat The “new Bing” 5 is a chatbot incorporated into the search engine. You may be logged in to a personal Microsoft account. The chatbot is also available in the Edge browser, 6 the Edge mobile

browser 7 and the Windows 11 search bar. 8 The new Bing screen prompts, “Ask me anything,” allowing up to 1,000 characters. You can run a regular web search or toggle Chat. Bing Chat works best with Microsoft Edge or the Bing mobile app. It is available at no additional cost to subscribers to Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium. And in the future, it will be avail able as a stand-alone offering for $5 per user per month. Chat in Bing is developed on code from their partner, OpenAI. OpenAI powers ChatGPT. Bing, owned by Microsoft, acknowl edges the same foibles as Google. You can review their approach to responsible AI. 9 Bing Chat has a few differ ent elements that contrast with Bard. First, the user chooses a

conversational style: more creative, more balanced or more precise. In Chat, you can add 2,000 characters, which is an increase from the reg ular Bing search. Instead of editing your prompt, you can continue to converse with Bing Chat by add ing qualifying questions until you choose “New Topic.” The results for each type of search (creative, balanced or precise) are color coded so that it is easy to distinguish which mode is used. Bing Chat also has a feature distinct from Google’s Bard. In the more creative mode, it will generate images powered by DALL-E. 10 It has restrictions so that you cannot misuse certain images, like celeb rities, public figures and organiza tions. For more information, see PC Mag ’s review of Bing Chat. 11

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