Pablo Arredondo

Pablo Arredondo, VP of CoCounsel for Thomson Reuters and co-founder of CaseText, dives into the transformative role of AI in legal practice. He discusses how tools like GPT-4 are revolutionizing legal research, making it more efficient and accessible. Arredondo highlights the balance between leveraging AI's capabilities and addressing ethical concerns. He also explores innovations in user interaction within legal tech and the importance of privacy and reliability in AI applications, painting an optimistic picture of AI's potential to enhance justice.

Prof. Emily Bender and Pablo Arredondo discuss the intelligence of generative AI systems like ChatGPT and their role in legal reasoning. The limitations of chatbots in language understanding and the concept of 'stochastic parrots' are explored. The challenges of AI systems in explaining reasoning and the debate on AGI funding and anthropomorphization are also discussed.

Pablo Arredondo, Chief Product Officer at CaseText, discusses their innovative search tool, WeSearch, which utilizes neural net techniques to understand the concepts and meanings of legal documents. They explore potential usages, cloud-based utility acceptance, the black box issue, and the challenges of bias. The chapter also touches on the benefits and concerns of black box techniques and cloud adoption.