AI Update: The DPA, Faster (But Not Better) Legal Writing, Full AI Contract Negotiation
This week in AI news.
The Biden administration’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence “applies a 73-year-old national security law to oversee the booming industry,” Bloomberg Law reports. The law, called the Defense Production Act, was passed in 1950 and gives the president the authority to require private companies to “prioritize certain production orders during wartime and national emergencies.”
A new study has found that legal writing tasks completed by law school students using AI were completed faster, but not necessarily better, than similar tasks completed by students that didn’t use AI, Reuters reports. Additionally, students with lower grades “saw bigger improvements on their legal writing tasks when using GPT-4 than did their higher-performing classmates.” The full study can be found at this link.
OpenAI has joined a slew of other tech companies with AI-powered products that have offered to pay for copyright lawsuits arising from the use of their tools, according to The Guardian. The offer extends only to users of ChatGPT Enterprise and was announced alongside a ChatGPT app store and a new model, GPT-4 Turbo, at the company’s first developer conference.
UK-based AI legal tech company Luminance has announced a product intended to fully replace attorneys in the contract negotiation process, according to a BBC journalist invited to view a demonstration of the product as it negotiated an NDA. “The idea is to reduce the delays that are often caused by people just not getting to something in their inbox, or being super busy on another task,” said Luminance managing director and chief of staff Jaeger Glucina.
In a bid to sidestep growing regulations imposed by the United States on sales of computer chips used for AI to foreign governments, Nvidia has developed three new chips for the Chinese market, the Financial Times reports, adding that analysts from chip consulting company SemiAnalysis characterized the move as “perfectly straddling the line on peak performance and performance density with these new chips to get them through the new US regulations.”
Ethan Beberness is a Brooklyn-based writer covering legal tech, small law firms, and in-house counsel for Above the Law. His coverage of legal happenings and the legal services industry has appeared in Law360, Bushwick Daily, and elsewhere.
