Answering Legal Questions with LLMs

Can ChatGPT+ give good answers to legal questions? Hugo Dutka puts the chatbot to the test:

Answering a question this way takes 5 to 10 minutes and costs about $2 with GPT-4.

The highlight of testing the system with dozens of lawyers was when a GDPR specialist reviewed its answers. The lawyer ranked 8 out of 10 responses as excellent, and the remaining 2 as overly cautious in interpreting the law.

However, over the long term, we found that GPT-4 can identify subquestions very well but often can’t answer them correctly. In non-trivial scenarios, it makes logical errors.

A mixed bag – so don’t go firing your attorneys just yet.

Read the article here.

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