Generative AI Killer Use Cases with Dazza Greenwood and Dr. Eliot
Oct 19, 2023
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Guests Dazza Greenwood and Dr. Lance Eliot explore the benefits of generative AI in the legal field, discussing the power of legal prompt engineering and the high-value use cases for AI in law. They emphasize the importance of well-constructed prompts and human oversight, while also highlighting the need for lawyers to embrace AI to stay competitive. The speakers also share their favorite books, movies, childhood inspirations, and discuss the importance of curiosity and playful creativity in facing and adapting to big changes in the world.
Generative AI can be a valuable asset to the legal field, aiding in tasks such as summarizing discovery material and identifying ambiguities in legal documents.
Clear and well-constructed prompts are essential for harnessing the power of generative AI in the legal profession, providing the necessary context for generating desired outputs and optimizing results.
Deep dives
The Power and Astonishment of Generative AI: Experts Discuss Chat GPT
In this podcast episode, two experts in the field of generative AI, Dr. Lance Elliott and Daza Greenwood, discuss their initial reactions to the emergence of chat GPT. Both experts express their astonishment and delight at the capabilities of chat GPT, highlighting its effectiveness in cutting through legal use cases and providing impressive outputs. They also discuss the importance of prompt engineering in harnessing the power of generative AI responsibly, emphasizing the need for well-constructed prompts, thorough review and critique of outputs, and iterative processes. Additionally, they explore various killer use cases for gen AI, including legal dialogue, voluminous material examination, document generation, and converting legal documents to plain language. They stress the value of using generative AI to augment legal tasks and processes, while highlighting the need for human oversight and maintaining responsible use of the technology in the legal profession.
The Potential of Generative AI for Lawyers: Prompts and Prompt Engineering
The podcast episode delves into the significance of prompts and prompt engineering in maximizing the potential of generative AI for lawyers. Dr. Lance Elliott and Daza Greenwood highlight the importance of clear and well-constructed prompts that provide the necessary context for generating desired outputs. They share various prompt engineering techniques, such as determining when to use show me versus tell me prompting strategies, utilizing vagueness as a tool, and employing the flipped interaction technique. They also discuss the power of instruct GPT and its ability to generate outputs in specific formats or forms, such as answering questions or creating memos. Furthermore, they emphasize the value of effective prompt engineering in areas such as document summarization, structured document reviews, legal research and analysis, and transforming legal documents to plain language.
Leveraging Generative AI in the Legal Industry: Killer Use Cases and Frameworks
The podcast episode explores the integration of generative AI in the legal industry, focusing on killer use cases and frameworks for successful implementation. Dr. Lance Elliott and Daza Greenwood discuss the significance of formulating well-constructed prompts to harness the power of generative AI responsibly. They emphasize the need for reviewing and critiquing outputs, iterating on prompts to optimize results, and establishing human oversight and controls. The experts highlight various killer use cases, such as carrying legal dialogues involving arguments, examining voluminous materials, composing legal documents, and converting legal documents to plain language. They also address the importance of fostering a culture of responsible AI usage in law firms, balancing exploration of technology with ethical and professional obligations.
The Future of AI in Law and Overcoming Existentialist Concerns
Dr. Lance Elliott and Daza Greenwood discuss the future of AI in the legal field and address existential concerns surrounding artificial general intelligence (AGI). They stress the importance of focusing on the current capabilities and realities of generative AI, rather than getting overwhelmed by concerns about AGI. The experts highlight the potential applications of AI in law, such as examining legal arguments, summarizing documents, composing legal drafts, and aiding risk detection. They emphasize the need for critical evaluation and responsible use of AI in the legal profession, while acknowledging the remarkable advancements and positive impact AI can have in areas like legal research, analysis, and document generation.
“Those that are equipped with and know how to ably use AI are going to be outdoing those lawyers and law firms that do not.”
The FutureWork podcast episode 6 features Dr. Lance Eliot, a regular Forbes contributor and AI Fellow at Stanford University and Dazza Greenwood, a renowned Fortune 100 legal tech advisor and the Executive Director of Law.MIT.edu. Both guests have industry-leading research and publications, and they routinely counsel attorneys, CEOs, educators, and business leaders. Lance and Dazza are also on the cutting edge of GenAI trends–developing roadmaps for legal teams, engineers and executives to transform the future.
Viewing generative AI as an effective tool for lawyers and not something to fear, Lance and Dazza provide listeners with suggestions for the most effective uses of legal prompt engineering and generative AI as a whole. From summarizing discovery material to identifying ambiguities in a legal document, generative AI can be a huge asset to the legal field. However, they caution that the results are only as good as the prompts.
Tune in as Natalie, Lance, and Dazza discuss key steps in creating a framework for the responsible use of generative AI in the practice of law, crucial techniques for how to boost your prompt engineering skills as a lawyer, high value use cases for generative AI in the practice of law, and why lawyers are in a great starting position to use generative AI.
Key Highlights
An effective framework for harnessing the power of generative AI responsibly in the practice of law involves formulating well-constructed prompts, reviewing and critiquing the outputs, iteration, and human oversight.
AI is coming into law practices, whether lawyers or law firms want it or not.
Prompt engineering is the idea that there are effective ways to craft prompts to carry on conversations with generative AI that are beneficial to the person who is interacting with the generative AI.
Summarization is an example of a high value use of generative AI on legal tasks.
There are various prompt engineering techniques that lawyers can use to effectively interact with generative AI.
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