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ChatGPT: Being alert but not alarmed.

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OpenAI’s latest release, ChatGPT, has exploded into public consciousness since its launch in November 2022, reaching 100 million users within two months of launch. While education bodies grapple with issues of academic integrity and cheating, lawyers and judges must ask whether this new technology will change the practice and administration of law. Or will it be just another piece of legal technology – good in its own niche, but unable to replicate the uniquely human elements of law and legal reasoning?

See ChatGPT in action, learn how it works, and discuss what it means for courts and judges in this timely and topical seminar.

Presenters.

Supreme Court of Victoria
Justice Jacinta Forbes
The Honourable Justice Jacinta Forbes was appointed in April 2019 and officially welcomed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in May 2019. After a varied practice as a solicitor, Justice Forbes joined the Victorian Bar in 2000 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 2014. Her Honour has extensive experience and specialisation in the areas of professional negligence, personal injury, product liability and general common law matters. Her Honour is the Judge in charge of Information Technology at the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School; CEO, ContractProbe
Michael Pattison
Michael has a Masters of Applied Science in Computer Science and uses his deep knowledge of information technology to solve problems in technology law and legal technology. He has a longstanding interest in the potential for legal technology to help lawyers do their work more efficiently and to remove some of the drudgery from that work. Michael was a partner at Allens for over 20 years, practising mainly in the area of technology law. More recently he founded the company ContractProbe, which uses artificial intelligence to correct errors in contracts that are under negotiation, and teaches the subject “Start Up Law” as part of Melbourne Law School’s JD programme. Michael is a founding director and past President of the Australian Legal Technology Association.