Extract from Kassi Burns’s article “Dear E-Discovery Professionals: It’s Our Time to Shine in the Age of AI”
The life of an e-discovery professional isn’t always an easy one. Beyond the difficulties we face with increasingly complicated data and evolving case law to meet the demands of new data sources, perhaps the most basic and painful challenge in our career is explaining what it is we even do.
To people outside the world of e-discovery, it’s not the easiest concept to grasp. But that’s all starting to change with the generative artificial intelligence gold rush and the public’s fascination with emerging tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and more.
A Whole New Generative AI World
Generative AI is a viral sensation and the hot takes tend to land at juxtaposed extremes: it’s going to take away our jobs (or humanity as a whole), or it’s going to make us 1,500 percent more productive in our lives with one single prompt.
Those of us who’ve worked with artificial intelligence vis-a-vis machine learning know that there’s no magic wand with analytics. At its most basic level, AI is a tool that we can use to make our lives easier. Given the vast scalability of generative AI, it can also be a tool that creates tremendous noise and chaos.
