{"id":54695,"date":"2023-04-10T05:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54695"},"modified":"2023-04-10T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:43:40","slug":"nyt-a-i-is-coming-for-lawyers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54695","title":{"rendered":"NYT: A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/10\/technology\/ai-is-coming-for-lawyers-again.html\">A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again<\/a> by Steve Lohr (\u201cPrevious advances in A.I. inspired predictions that the law was the lucrative profession most likely to suffer job losses. It didn\u2019t happen. Is this time different?\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>More than a decade ago, lawyers were singled out as an endangered occupational species, their livelihoods at risk from advances in artificial intelligence.<\/p><p>But the doomsayers got ahead of themselves. While clever software has taken over some of the toil of legal work \u2014 searching, reviewing and mining mountains of legal documents for nuggets of useful information \u2014 employment in the legal profession has grown faster than the American work force as a whole.<\/p><p>Today, a new A.I. threat looms, and lawyers may feel a bit of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. There are warnings that ChatGPT-style software, with its humanlike language fluency, could take over much of legal work. The new A.I. has its flaws, notably its proclivity to make things up, including fake legal citations. But proponents insist those are teething defects in a nascent technology \u2014 and fixable.<\/p><p>Will the pessimists finally be right?<\/p><p>Law is seen as the lucrative profession perhaps most at risk from the recent advances in A.I. because lawyers are essentially word merchants. And the new technology can recognize and analyze words and generate text in an instant. It seems ready and able to perform tasks that are the bread and butter of lawyers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I typed Brady v. Maryland into Bing.com to find some articles.  The AI version wrote two paragraphs on Brady in less than 30 seconds that was literate and accurate.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again by Steve Lohr (\u201cPrevious advances in A.I. inspired predictions that the law was the lucrative profession most likely to suffer job losses. It didn\u2019t happen. Is this time different?\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54696,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695\/revisions\/54696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}