Ep 188: Can GPT Pass the Bar Exam? We Find Out

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the December release of Open AI’s GPT-3.5 model, and the related ChatGPT, speculation has been rampant about how this next generation of artificial intelligence might upend the legal profession. But as others have been speculating, two legal scholars and scientists,</span> <a href="https://www.danielmartinkatz.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Daniel Martin Katz</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bommarito/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Michael Bommarito</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, put GPT 3.5 to the task, having it perform that most anxiety-inducing of tests along the path to becoming a lawyer – taking the bar exam. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How did it do? Katz and Bommarito recently published the results in their article,</span> <a href= "https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4314839"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> GPT Takes the Bar Exam</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and on this episode of LawNext, they join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss why they did this experiment, how it turned out, and what it all means for the future of AI in law. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katz is professor of law at</span> <a href= "https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/daniel-martin-katz"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Chicago-Kent College of Law</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and academic director of both</span> <a href= "http://www.thelawlab.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Law Lab at Illinois Tech, Chicago-Kent College of Law</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and the</span> <a href= "https://legaltechcenter.de/en/index.html"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in Hamburg, Germany. He is cofounder and CSO of</span> <a href= "https://273ventures.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">273 Ventures<