Here’s the kitchen sink for June 28, 2024 of five stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the vacation condensed kitchen sink for June 28, 2024 of five stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Report: Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others: Is anyone surprised by this? Amazon can’t be left out when there are billions to be had. The chatbot service is code-named “Metis,” which makes it sound like it’s from Meta. As in we will have “Meta”nother AI chatbot. 😉

Peek-A-Boo! Teams File Preview: Make that six stories, because Greg Buckles gave us two of them. As Greg reports, users will now see preview images of Teams chat attachments without having to open them. Also, Microsoft announced changes to transcript storage locations, default access permissions and more this month at Build 2024. Thanks, Greg!

Employers Willing to Pay Premium for AI-Savvy Workers: How much of a premium? As Rob Robinson tells us, a study by Amazon shows employers are willing to offer up to a 47% increase in base salary for employees proficient in AI. If that doesn’t motivate people to learn AI skills, I don’t know what does.

AI May Not Reduce The Number Of Lawyers Anytime Soon: I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree with this article by Jordan Rothman on Above the Law. There will still be plenty of legal tasks to perform, though the tools used to perform them will automate more of the work (but not all because you still have to QC the results). What I disagree with is his contention that predictive coding already eliminated most of the document review attorneys. There are still plenty of cases with scores of doc review attorneys, partly because predictive coding was never fully adopted to the level we all thought it would be. GenAI may be different – we’ll see.

ChatGPT’s Surprising Ability to Split into Multiple Virtual Entities to Debate and Solve Legal Issues: Ralph Losey discusses the hive mind and how ChatGPT has tapped into it in this post for EDRM, which includes more discussion of his custom GPT and the AI panel that is trying to take one of my jobs. 😉

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 28, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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