Monday, July 01, 2024

Is this everything they need?

https://www.bespacific.com/vox-populai-lessons-from-a-global-law-firms-exploration-of-generative-ai/

Vox PopulAI: Lessons from a global law firm’s exploration of generative AI

Ashurst: “The speed at which organisations are adopting generative AI technology (GenAI) shows no sign of slowing. Business leaders in every industry are seeking to identify the best use cases for GenAI and where it can add the most value to their organisations. This is as true in law firms as it is in other industries. At Ashurst, our focus has been on taking this a step beyond use case identification and value prediction to truly understanding and also measuring how GenAI might impact the way we work and serve our clients. From November 2023 to March 2024, Ashurst’s Office of the Chief Digital Officer (the CDO team) led three global GenAI trials involving 411 partners, lawyers and staff representing all of our practice areas and business services functions across 23 offices in 14 countries in our global network. Through the trials, we sought to prove or disprove a series of working hypotheses concerning whether, how and how much our people would engage with and find value in GenAI. The trials were designed to capture a mix of qualitative and quantitative assessment data through a blind study, controlled experiments with small groups of participants, and feedback surveys, giving our people a voice in how GenAI could benefit them. Outcomes were achieved using only publicly available data, not client data, and by adopting rigorous guardrails throughout. Our findings uncovered five key insights:

  1. Value: The initial value of GenAI for legal is in helping lawyers create first drafts quicker and more efficiently.
  2. Accuracy: GenAI-generated output can be difficult to distinguish from human output when legally correct.
  3. Quality: Quality in a legal context is multidimensional, with subjective and objective elements.
  4. Scope: Beyond legal and client work, GenAI can make day-to-day life easier and help people feel more prepared for the future.
  5. Adoption: The ‘jagged frontier‘ of AI in the legal industry needs clarification to derive value..”





A free PDF/AI tool to play with.

https://www.makeuseof.com/lightpdf-ai-chat-features/

LightPDF Now Comes With Integrated AI Capabilities

The LightPDF team has been working for over seven years now in order to advance the field of PDF conversion, editing, and more. The intent behind this has been to make PDFs easier to use and share than ever before, and has resulted in the creation of the LightPDF of today, capable of handling file conversion, editing, compression, and more.

The ChatPDF feature allows you to upload your documents directly to LightPDF for a GPT-4 powered AI to analyze. All you have to do to get started with the bot is upload the file you want analyzed. You can even use a URL if you prefer.





Tools & Techniques.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-private-search-engines/

The 7 Best Private Search Engines That Respect Your Data

Finding a search engine that's both effective and not hell-bent on selling your information is hard. Fortunately, they do exist, and there are plenty of them for you to choose from.





Useful information?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/01/seven-signs-deepfake-artificial-intelligence-videos-photographs

Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

Look out for surplus fingers, compare mannerisms with real recordings and apply good old-fashioned common sense and scepticism, experts advise



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