Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Tech
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Colleges (And Law Schools) Are Rushing To Respond To ChatGPT
Chronicle of Higher Education, ChatGPT Is Everywhere: It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT appeared on the scene just three months ago, promising to transform how we write. The chatbot, easy to use and trained on vast amounts of digital text, is now pervasive. Higher education, rarely quick about anything, is still trying to comprehend the…
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Does ChatGPT Produce Fishy Briefs?
ABA Journal, Does ChatGPT Produce Fishy Briefs?: Lawyers are abuzz about the possible uses of ChatGPT. Could the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot write a persuasive legal brief worthy of judicial consideration? Given its limitations, we believe that’s unlikely. ChatGPT, a large language model developed by the San Francisco company OpenAI that launched in November, can draw…
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ChatGPT’s Tax Advice Was Wrong 100% Of The Time
Accountants' World visitors: if you would like to receive a daily email with links to that day's tax posts, please email me. Bloomberg, ChatGPT Can Give Tax Advice, But You Really Get What You Pay For: ChatGPT can write essays, poetry, letters, and more, so we posed the question—can it do our taxes? Our company,…
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It’s Not Just Our Students: ChatGPT Is Coming For Faculty Scholarship
Chronicle of Higher Ed Op-Ed: It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing, by Ben Chrisinger (Oxford; Google Scholar): Almost immediately after OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, people began wondering what it would mean for teaching and learning. A widely read piece in The Atlantic that provided one of the first looks at the tool’s ability…
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Bilek & Merritt: ChatGPT Almost Passed The Bar, But Competent Lawyers Do Much More
Bloomberg Law Op-Ed: ChatGPT Almost Passed the Bar, But Competent Lawyers Do Much More, by Mary Lu Bilek (CUNY) & Deborah Merritt (Ohio State): ChatGPT, OpenAI’s provocative artificial intelligence program, has come close to passing the multiple-choice portion of the bar exam. The bot has also earned passing grades on law school essays that resemble…
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Bishop Posts Two Papers On ChatGPT
Lea Bishop (Indiana-McKinney): Can ChatGPT 'Think Like a Lawyer?' A Socratic Dialogue: A witty socratic dialogue with a language-generation model, exploring the aims of legal education in the new era of machine writing. If you are a lawyer, a law student, or a law professor, you already have a good understanding of what it means…
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Ryznar: Exams In The Time Of ChatGPT
Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-McKinney), Exams in the Time of ChatGPT, 80 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online __ (2023): This article offers various methods to administer assessments while maintaining their integrity—after asking artificial intelligence writing tool ChatGPT for its views on the matter. The sophisticated response of the chatbot, which students can use in their written…
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Alarie: The Rise Of The Robotic Tax Analyst
Benjamin Alarie (Toronto; Google Scholar; CEO, Blue J Legal), The Rise of the Robotic Tax Analyst, 178 Tax Notes Fed. 57 (Jan. 2, 2023): As a bold taxwriting experiment, this installment of Blue J Predicts has been generated with the help of an AI assistant, OpenAI’s “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3” (GPT-3). GPT-3 is a large…
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ChatGPT Gets C+ Grade On Four Minnesota Law School Exams (C- In Tax)
Following up on this morning's post, ChatGPT Gets B|B- Grade On Wharton MBA Exam: Jonathan Choi (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Kristin Hickman (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Amy Monahan (Minnesota) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), ChatGPT Goes to Law School: How well can AI models write law school exams without human assistance? To find out, we used…
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ChatGPT Gets B|B- Grade On Wharton MBA Exam
Following up on this morning's post, ChatGPT Gets C+ Grade On Four Minnesota Law School Exams: Christian Terwiesch (Wharton; Google Scholar), Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA?: OpenAI’s Chat GPT3 has shown a remarkable ability to automate some of the skills of highly compensated knowledge workers in general and specifically the knowledge workers in…
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Using ChatGPT To Write Law School Exams, Bar Exams, And Strategic Plans
Reuters, Some Law Professors Fear ChatGPT's Rise as Others See Opportunity: The artificial intelligence program ChatGPT came up short last month on the multiple choice portion of the bar exam. The free chatbot from OpenAI performed better than predicted, however, earning passing scores on evidence and torts. The academics behind the experiment expect it will…
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Blackman: GPT Will Soon Be Able To Pass The Multistate Bar Exam
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Josh Blackman (South Texas; Google Scholar), Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam?: My frequent co-authors, Mike Bommarito and Dan Katz utilized a different software tool from OpenAI, known as GPT-3.5, to answer the multiple choice questions on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE). If there are four choices, the…
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Blackman: ChatGPT And Law School Exams
Following up on my previous post, The Implications Of OpenAI’s Assistant For Legal Services And Society: Josh Blackman (South Texas; Google Scholar), Plagiarism and ChatGPT: ChatGPT … uses sophisticated technology to generate answers to questions. These responses are written in plain English, that are easy to understand, and incorporate information from a massive neural network. These…
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The Implications Of OpenAI’s Assistant For Legal Services And Society
Andrew M. Perlman (Dean, Suffolk; Google Scholar) & Open AI's Assistant, The Implications of OpenAI’s Assistant for Legal Services and Society: On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a chatbot called ChatGPT. To demonstrate the chatbot’s remarkable sophistication and its potential implications, both for legal services and society more generally, a human author generated this paper…
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A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 And The Practice Of Law
Amy B. Cyphert (ASPIRE), A Human Being Wrote This Law Review Article: GPT-3 and the Practice of Law, 55 UC Davis L. Rev. 401 (2021): Artificial intelligence tools can now “write” in such a sophisticated manner that they fool people into believing that a human wrote the text. None are better at writing than GPT-3,…