Generative AI: a glimpse of the Legal future
Author: Bruce Braude - Chief Technology Officer, Deloitte Legal UK - bbraude@deloitte.co.uk
When Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT in November 2022, it took the world by storm. Although the technology has been around for a while, making it publicly available with hardly any warning was a game-changer.
Generative AI algorithms create outputs, whether that’s text, images, code, audio or video. At their heart are large language models that are trained on huge amounts of data to understand, and mimic, human communication and natural language.
And considering there’s around 140 zettabytes of digital information on the internet – about 45 trillion books – there’s a lot for them to learn from.