Real Intelligence on AI - December 2024

The November 2024 edition of "Real Intelligence on AI" introduces the OBA's Real Intelligence on AI Academy, a groundbreaking AI learning and training platform for lawyers, offering insights into AI’s legal applications and compliance. Highlights include an AI Trial Advocacy program, articles on advising clients in the AI age, and commentary on AI's limitations in legal self-representation. Fun features explore AI's creative uses, like photo curation and editing tools.

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Join AI Office Hours Tomorrow to Preview and Gain Insider Access to a New AI Learning Environment and Training Sandbox for Lawyers

 You won't want to miss AI Office Hours on Tuesday, November 26 at noon, when OBA Innovator in Residence Colin Lachance will offer attendees a sneak peek of OBA's Real Intelligence on AI Academy, a new member-exclusive AI learning environment and training sandbox that will reveal the ways AI comes into play in the rapidly changing legal landscape and unpack current AI regulatory obligations while helping lawyers build tools and create policies and guidelines customized to their firms' needs. This platform offers a unique immersive experience - with highly practical applications - that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. Those who attend this session will gain insider access to the pre-launch Beta environment - sign up to be among the first to explore it!

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Real Intelligence on AI Program Spotlight

 AI Trial Advocacy: Your Guide to Handling the Evidentiary Implications of Artificial Intelligence - Day 2: The Trial

Ensure you have the insights and expertise you need to handle the evidentiary implications of AI in court with this highly practical program in which, through demonstrations and debriefs, our top-notch faculty of AI leaders, members of the judiciary and experienced litigators will share valuable advice on the questions you need to ask and the approaches you should be considering.

Day 2: The Trial will cover:

  • Direct and Cross-Examination of Party Witnesses
  • Direct and Cross-Examination of Experts
  • Where We Go From Here?
  • And more!

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Did you miss out on Day 1 of our AI Trial Advocacy program? Stream it on-demand from our Real Intelligence program archives.


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Latest Analysis from Lawyers …

OBA members have been sharing their AI expertise and opinions in an array of intriguing Section and JUST. Magazine articles. We've rounded up some of the most recent AI reading:


… and From Around the Web

From the curious to the serious, this AI news is making headlines:

Did you miss our Real Intelligence on AI session on How to Advise Your Labour and Employment Clients in the Artificial Intelligence Age? Find the on-demand video here.

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What to Say to Clients Who Think AI Makes Them Legal Experts?

 In a recent instalment of AI Office Hours, a member asked guest Michael McGinn, innovation manager at Fasken, what he would say to a client who thinks they might be able to represent themself, with the assistance of an AI tool like ChatGPT. Here's an excerpt from Micheal's response:

If ChatGPT was always wrong, then it would be a no-brainer for everyone. The problem is, sometimes it's actually pretty good, and it generates some really good answers. But the key is informing those clients that we don't know what these models have been trained on. So, it doesn't understand law. It doesn't reason law. It might not even know the case law, and a lot of times it doesn't know, because it hasn't been trained on it … Generally, they don't have access to a large database of legislation and case law and whatnot. So, you can't rely on it. In low stakes kinds of scenarios, where you just have a very general kind of question that probably has been asked a million times, you may get some information. But to ask a specific question about, like, does this apply in Ontario versus Manitoba, or anything like that, you're not going to most likely get an accurate answer … These are consumer grade, large language models under the hood on a lot of these applications, including the legal applications. They're designed to be used by any industry and any individual ... It's just educating [clients] on what these models are built for, and what the limitations are when it comes to the training, what they have access to in the back end.

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Using Apple Intelligence to Curate Photo Memories?

 In their review of Apple Intelligence, the Los Angeles Times notes the enhanced capabilities it possesses to help users "better find specific photos in their libraries and create short videos to relive memories by typing in descriptions." It offers, by way of example, a mother who types in, "Hannah and her bunny over the years," to have the software generate a so-themed slideshow compilation video from her photo library with music. But it also has new powers right within the Photos app to eliminate undesirable elements from photos, from the scene-stealing to the view-obstructing to the cringe-inducing, with an editing tool that "lets users remove unwanted objects or people in their photos by tapping, brushing away or circling the image." (They emphasize the ease with which you can rid your photos of selfie-sticks, photo-bombers, and exes.)

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