In recent artificial intelligence (AI) news, the Biden administration has used the Defense Production Act (DPA)—a law dating back to 1950—to regulate the ever-expanding AI industry. Bloomberg Law reported that the Defense Production Act, originally designed for wartime and national emergencies, grants the president the power to mandate priorities for private companies.
A new study spotlighted by Reuters found that while AI can speed up legal writing tasks undertaken by law school students, it doesn’t necessarily improve the quality. Furthermore, the study, available in full here, identified that students with lower grades saw more significant improvements in their work quality when using Generalized Pre-training Transformer-4 (GPT-4) compared to their higher-performing peers.
Meanwhile, The Guardian reported that OpenAI, along with several other tech companies harnessing AI, has offered to shoulder pending copyright lawsuits linked to their products. This offer is currently restricted to users of their ChatGPT Enterprise solution.
Luminance, a UK-based AI legal tech firm, has created a product designed to entirely replace attorneys throughout the contract negotiation process, according to a demonstration covered by the BBC. The goal of this product is to mitigate delays caused by human factors such as inbox overflow or preoccupation with other tasks.
Finally, amid mounting U.S. regulations concerning the foreign sale of AI-based computer chips, Nvidia has developed three new chips specifically for the Chinese market. The Financial Times highlighted opinions from chip consulting company SemiAnalysis, who described Nvidia’s approach as “perfectly straddling the line on peak performance and performance density with these new chips to get them through the new U.S. regulations.”