[Editor’s Note: Sarah Martinson, Senior Reporter, Legal Tech for Law360 covered the EDRM Flash Ripped from the Headlines Webinar “ChatGPT: Should Ediscovery Lawyers be Nervous?” on March 29. 2023. The webinar hosted AI expert and EDRM Global Advisory Council leader John Tredennick, founder and CEO of Merlin Search Technologies, also an EDRM Trusted Partner together with Merlin’s Chief Data Scientist, Dr. William Webber. The webinar included a demonstration using emails from the TREC study and the winning team’s calls as the gold standard to evaluate ChatGPT’s usefulness in first pass review. An excerpt from the article follows:]
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Artificial intelligence research company OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT will need to be plugged into an e-discovery platform to be most useful for attorneys doing document review, panelists said at a virtual event Wednesday.
I do believe we’re going to find methods to make this as confidential as some of the other methods that we [now] take for granted in communicating.
John Tredennick
John Tredennick, founder and CEO of legal software company Merlin Search Technologies, said at the event hosted by e-discovery organization EDRM that ChatGPT can do several tasks, like summarize documents and answer questions, that are helpful in e-discovery.
But attorneys also need capabilities found on e-discovery platforms like tagging and indexing documents that ChatGPT can’t do, Tredennick said.
“You need tools like Sherlock, our AI-powered bloodhound, to pull in, review, tagging — the whole thing — to really make this work,” he said.
Earlier this month, speakers at another panel said that the growing amount of data that attorneys need to review in litigation and investigations makes it necessary for them to use AI tools in their work.
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