AI, or artificial intelligence, is an attempt by computers to, essentially, act more human. Generative AI takes text, image, audio, video, and code and generates new content. For example, I can ask ChatGPT to create a poem for my mother for Mother’s Day and the more details I provide, the better it sounds. Unlike traditional AI, which deals primarily with numbers and small amounts of text, generative AI can utilize all the modalities mentioned above and prepare entirely new content in any of the forms referenced.

Are We Using It Now?

As attorneys, we are utilizing AI every day. We use Excel to create spreadsheets. We utilize spellcheck on Microsoft Word and we utilize generative AI with Lexis Advance in our research tasks.