The following is a lightly edited excerpt from OBA Innovator in Residence Colin Lachance’s keynote address at OBA TECHxpo: AI Edition, delivered on August 21, 2024 at the OBA Conference Centre.
Agentic AI frameworks (basically, a “team” of AI and other software capacities with tool and data access guided by a combination of analysis and reasoning engines) are increasingly being used in software development and customer service environments. In fact, there are a lot of agentic frameworks, as they're called, both visible and invisible.
Proliferating elsewhere, perhaps, but is there a place for them in law? And do we even need them when we have companies that are building AI tools that serve our particular needs?