Is GenAI making us lazy? ??

Greetings!

Tom Dreyfus and Sam Flynn here.

Summer is over! And don’t we just know it – the legaltech community is moving faster than ever to put legal automation and GenAI to work as we enter the final stretch of 2024. Here are some of the highlights from the last month alone!

Bupa celebrates its new Josef Q tools across Legal, People, Marketing & more @ CLOC ???

At Josef’s Build vs Buy Solution Lab at CLOC APAC last month, Head of Legal Operations at global insurance giant Bupa shared why they didn’t just stop at legal when rolling out Josef Q, bringing other experts on the journey! Read more.?

Travelperk’s Tom Rice dug into human impact of GenAI ??

While everyone might be staring at the “shiny object” (as coined by everyone’s favorite Robert Ambrogi at this year’s ILTACON) waiting to see what it can do, Tom Rice from Barcelona tech giant TravelPerk reminded us to center people in our rush to ROI: we still have the agency to use this tool in the way we want. We couldn’t agree more! Build for your end-users and your subject-matter experts: you need both for a successful digital tool.

“Unshackle knowledge with AI,” says adidas’ Alex Herrity ??

Get information out of the “prisons” of Word documents and into the hands of people who need to know it, said Alex Herrity in a Fireside Chat with Sam last month. Watch the full chat here. (Though a word of warning: some are saying it’s going to make us lazier decision-makers!)?

How many R’s are in Strawberry? OpenAI releases “reasoning” models ??

OpenAI releases a new suite of models which are trained to reason using chain of thought, the thinking being that they’d hallucinate less frequently. The results? As usual, we had the haters and the techno optimists rushing to LinkedIn to share their thoughts. What about us at Josef ? As always, we’re going to send it to the LT Lab for rigorous testing! There’s no substitute.

If our solution was going to be really high-tech, we wouldn’t have been able to make it work. We needed a solution that we could easily train our people on, which in itself is a really good incentive for lawyers. They love up-skilling!

Claire Nuske , Head of Legal Operations - Bupa