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Merging generative AI into our world - Autologyx

Written by admin | Oct 6, 2023 5:15:18 PM
A new genie has been unleashed on legal. We have been on a journey towards ‘legal product’: improved, structured legal delivery and allocation of legal work to the best resource at the right cost. We utilise templates, playbooks, understand the potential for automation based on structured inputs and outputs, and are shifting away from the primacy of the individual’s prowess (however tightly managed) towards ‘systems’: consistent, measured and demonstrable — backed by the rich ecosystem of service providers, process and technology now available.

But technology has now crossed the line into something at best closely resembling human output in the form of large language model-based AI, and the narrative of what mature legal service delivery might look like has changed overnight. We’re struggling to merge the huge potential of this new capability with yesterday’s picture — how do we integrate this magic box, loosely linked to huge sets of data and able to produce sophisticated outputs based on any variations of a prompt — in other words, something quite like us?

Productivity and precision in process

The answer hasn’t changed from how we approached the introduction of any new capability. For example, AI is quite good at summarising anything you throw at it; it can put together a decent set of summary bullets or paragraphs in readable prose. AI can mimic a baseline understanding of things like contractual obligations — enough to extract and summarise them, or give context around how they might be triggered. But it also makes the occasional howler and is particularly guilty of making up references. We need to check everything AI does — but the ace up the sleeve is that all this is incredibly fast, turning hours into minutes. Where would we use such capabilities?

This is an extract from an article published in Briefing magazine. Read the full article here.