Over a year since OpenAI’s human-like chatbot ChatGPT introduced generative artificial intelligence to the world, and by extension, the legal industry, many are still trying to determine how different this new technology really is—and whether it makes so-called traditional AI obsolete.

During Friday’s “An E-Discovery AI Primer on Distinguishing Machine Learning from ChatGPT and Other Tools” webinar from ACEDS, panelists unpacked some of the misconceptions that e-discovery professionals may still have about generative AI from what it means to future jobs and what lawyers’ duty of competence actually encompasses to the many technical definitions in between.