Generative AI in law firms: For many, such technologies are still a great unknown

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Source: Reuters
By Zach Warren

While many law firms are excited about generative AI for legal work, there are a number that simply don’t know what the technology can do.

Many law firm attorneys feel positively about the prospect of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and such AI-enabling tools as ChatGPT, according to the Thomson Reuters Institute’s report released in April. Indeed, the report revealed that more than 80% of law firm leaders surveyed said they believed generative AI can be applied to legal work now, and more than half believed it actively should be applied to legal work.

Among the other respondents, however, the feeling was not necessarily distaste for generative AI, although some of that did exist. Instead, many are still simply unsure exactly what generative AI is or what it can do. Yet, considering the pace at which law firms have adopted technology previously…

Read full article: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/generative-ai-law-firms-many-such-technologies-are-still-great-unknown-2023-05-23/

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