I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to bring more interactivity and immediacy into legal research instruction—especially for those topics that never quite “click” the first time. One idea that’s stuck with me is vibe-coding (see Sam Harden’s recent piece on vibecoding for access to justice). The concept, loosely put, is about using
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OpenAI’s New Deep Research Model
This post is brought to you by ChatGPT’s Deep Research. It produced this report after about 10 minutes of thinking and searching online (sources in the footnotes). I have also used it for a couple of fairly complex legal research queries and it produces the equivalent of an article from a treatise – they…
Revolutionizing Legal Education with AI: The Socratic Quizbot
I had the pleasure of co-teaching AI and the Practice of Law with Kenton Brice last semester at OU Law. It was an incredible experience. When we met to think through how we would teach this course, we agreed on one crucial component:We wanted the students to get a lot of reps using AI throughout…
Announcing the AI Law Librarians Prompt Library
We’re excited to announce a new resource for our community: the AI Law Librarians Prompt Library, a place for law librarians (and the legal community at large) to share and collect useful prompts.
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Whether you’re a law librarian, lawyer, or law student, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of developing effective prompts…
A Legal Research Prompting Guide and Generative AI System Comparison Exercise
I’m sharing a guide and exercise I’ve developed for my legal research courses. This Google spreadsheet provides instructions on crafting AI prompts for legal research and includes a practical exercise for comparing different AI systems. It’s designed to help develop skills in leveraging AI for legal research. Feel free to copy it to adapt it…
AALS Presentation: Improving the Creation of Legal Scholarship with Generative AI
On June 12, 2024, we (Sarah Gotschall, Rebecca Fordon, and Sean Harrington) had the pleasure of presenting Improving the Creation of Legal Scholarship with Generative AI as part of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Technology Law section summer webinar series. If interested, you can watch the recording here or access the PowerPoint…
Evaluating Generative AI for Legal Research: A Benchmarking Project
This is a post from multiple authors: Rebecca Fordon (The Ohio State University), Deborah Ginsberg (Harvard Law Library), Sean Harrington (University of Oklahoma), and Christine Park (Harvard Law Library)
In late 2023, several legal research databases and start-up competitors announced their versions of ChatGPT-like products, each professing that theirs would be the latest and greatest.…
Exploring AI’s Frontier: A Mysterious gpt2-chatbot, LLM Leaderboard Rankings, and Chatbot Improvement in True Crime Speculation
The world of AI chatbots is a whirlwind of innovation, with new developments and surprises seemingly emerging every week! Since the end of April, one particular model, modestly gpt2-chatbot, captured the attention of myself and other AI enthusiasts due to its advanced abilities and sparked much speculation. This mysterious bot first appeared on April 28…
Ghost in the Machine
Today’s guest post comes from Debbie Ginsberg, Faculty Services Manager at Harvard Law School Library.
I was supposed to write a blog post about the Harvard AI summit about six months ago. For various reasons (e.g., “didn’t get my act together”), that hasn’t happened. But one of the things that was brought up at the…
The Human Side of AI: LLMs Can Persuade and Be Persuaded, Just Like Us
When it comes to interacting with others, we humans often find ourselves influenced by persuasion. Whether it’s a friend persistently urging us to reveal a secret or a skilled salesperson convincing us to make a purchase, persuasion can be hard to resist. It’s interesting to note that this susceptibility to influence is not exclusive to…