E-Discovery Team
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This blog promotes an interdisciplinary team approach to electronic discovery law and shares Ralph Losey’s thoughts on law and technology.
E-Discovery Team
2w ago
There are two types of “tells” as to whether a writing is a fake, just another LLM created parrot, or whether its real, a bonafide human creation. One is to look at the structure and style of the writing and the other is to look at the words used. This blog examines both GPT detectors ..read more
E-Discovery Team
2w ago
Large Language Model generative AIs are well-described metaphorically as “stochastic parrots.” In fact, the American Dialect Society, selected stochastic parrot as its AI word of the year for 2023, just ahead of the runners-up “ChatGPT, hallucination, LLM and prompt engineer.” These genius stochastic parrots can be of significant value to all legal professionals, even those ..read more
E-Discovery Team
3w ago
Here is the transcript of the five minute talk by the robot portrait. (⏱ = 0.5 second pause in speech) Hi, I am a robot image created by Ralph Losey, roughly in the style of Rembrandt, one of his favorite artists. ⏱ I think I also look like the work of another Dutch Master, Vermeer. ..read more
E-Discovery Team
1M ago
AI video written and directed by Ralph Losey. Article Underlying the Video. The seminal article on the dangers of relying on stochastic parrots was written in 2021, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (FAccT ’21, 3/1/21) by a team of AI experts, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major and Margaret Mitchell. This article arose out of ..read more
E-Discovery Team
1M ago
Most everyone in the AI and legal worlds by now knows about the New York Times (“NYT”) suit against Microsoft and various Open AI entities (“OAI”). The NYT alleges copyright infringement by the practice of OAI, and most all other generative AI companies, of using data scraped from the internet to train their generative AIs ..read more
E-Discovery Team
2M ago
Extensive Turing tests by a team of respected scientists have shown that “chatbots’ behaviors tend to be more cooperative and altruistic than the median human, including being more trusting, generous, and reciprocating.” The article quoted above and featured here is by Qiaozhu Mei, Yutong Xie, Walter Yuan, and Matthew O. Jackson, A Turing test of ..read more
E-Discovery Team
3M ago
In a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, the legal profession stands at a crossroads. Lawyers must adopt the new AI tools and quickly learn how to use them effectively and safely. That means learning the skill of how to use AI, which techs call “prompt engineering.” Fortunately, that just means word engineering, the art ..read more
E-Discovery Team
3M ago
This is the conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those who would speed it up. Part Two shared the story of the great visionary of AI, Ray Kurzweil. Part Three told the tale of Jensen Huang, the CEO and founder of ..read more
E-Discovery Team
4M ago
Read the story of Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner, hero of France and Facebook. He will not stop his efforts to fly to the sun of super intelligence and is astonished by his friends and colleagues who are turning back ..read more
E-Discovery Team
4M ago
This is Part Two of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those who would speed it up. This is an age-old struggle between fear and hope, between those who seek to maintain the status quo and those who ..read more