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FEATURE
Future
Ethan Holland
The AI
Exploring the ‘adjacent possible’ withemerging AI solutions
Just as lawyers 25 years ago saw the internet evolve from a conversational curio into an indispensable element of their lives, they now must understand artificial intelligence, whose tools will be used by clients and adversaries.
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In 2023, AI broke into pop cul- ture and was broadly adopted as a catch-all term, specifically referring to “generative AI,” the most famous example of which is a language model — ChatGPT. Most people are at least familiar with the free version of Chat- GPT, which is a conversational interface that’s startlingly smart and compelling. There are other generative AI tools for
audio, imagery and video, but Chat- GPT has become synonymous with AI. ChatGPT is so proficient at con-
versation that people mistake it for an expert, when in fact, it’s just a dialog tool. A language model could be com- pared to a charismatic dilettante at a cocktail party. This person comes across as a genius — a multilingual polymath — because they are adroit at making small
