A lot has happened since our last issue.
You might have noticed that this is a different platform from what we have been using. We lost all our 463 subscribers when Twitter decided to shutdown Revue on January 18th this year. I’m incredibly proud of all of us for getting 10,765 people to read our newsletters in its 12 months ride. I hope you continue to stay with us on this journey and ride this wave with us.
Also, Google has launched its AI chatbot - Bard. Bard is an experimental conversational AI service powered by Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Microsoft has also made a big statement with their new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser which allows users to search the web by asking regular questions rather than using three or four keywords to deliver better searches and more complete answers.
On a lighter note, Manchester United is in the league cup final🫢, do you think they can beat Barcelona come this Thursday? And my sister who started taking product design lessons in December earned her first “tech money” after just 3 weeks.
This issue covers my take on Bing, interesting news items, remote jobs and an inspiring thread of iconic pitch videos by startups.
🚀 Sent from metaverse,
Michel
💻 The Rundwon
A handful of individuals have received early access to the updated Bing search engine from Microsoft, which has been enhanced with artificial intelligence thanks to ChatGPT creator - OpenAI. For me, the introduction of this Bing will revolutionize legal research.
In the limited preview, search examples produce both traditional results on the left and a chat tab where you can get AI-generated answers. The game changer here is the links provided to sources during your research. I predict that this chat tab will drastically cut down long hours used by legal professionals in conducting research online.
What does this mean for legal research?
This means that lawyers, law students and patrons of legal services now have a broader opportunity to conduct more accurate, efficient and faster research with different options for the results they may access using Microsoft’s Bing.
Through the traditional search offered by Bing, users can perform more conventional search tasks to obtain general, open-ended results for their search queries.
With the Bing AI Chatbot, however, users can pose more detailed, specific and complex queries to obtain answers tailored to their peculiar legal issue and even legal system.
I asked Bing to answer a Solicitor’s Qualifying Exam (SQE) 2 Legal Assessment (sample practice area criminal litigation) question.
Bing identified the key issue of the question and provided accurate answers in seconds:
Having access to both options (traditional results and chatbot) on the same window truly presents the best of both worlds. I will present part 2 of this debate to you when Google’s Bard is available to users. Fingers crossed it does not make mistakes again to get it’s value wiped down.
📰 Things in the news you should check out
The top five legal tech fundraises in January revealed as VC funding “fell off a cliff”…continue reading
Legal tech artificial intelligence market 2023 : statistical analysis with regional segmentation analysis 2026…continue reading
Court efficiency – using legal technology to alleviate delays…continue reading
Clio announces international expansion to Australia…continue reading
Robots aren't representing us in court but here are 7 legal tech startups transforming the legal system..continue reading
🧳 Go and get these remote jobs
TaylorWessing is hiring a Legal Technologist / Document Automation Specialist
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