@BLaw: #ChatGPT almost passed the #barexam. Here’s what that could mean for #lawyers.

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s provocative artificial intelligence program, has come close to passing the multiple-choice portion of the bar exam. The bot has also earned passing grades on law school essays that resemble ones written for the exam.

These feats are particularly notable because ChatGPT has not been to law school, paid for a commercial bar review course, or devoted all its energies to bar exam study for 10 weeks. Nor has it been trained on legal databases. It is very likely that, once ChatGPT is exposed to more legal materials, it will consistently pass the bar exam.

Alas, some percentage of the humans who take the exam will still fail. They would be able to find correct answers in seconds by using ChatGPT 2.0—or in minutes by retrieving the law from other sources—but won’t be permitted access to any of those sources on a closed-book bar exam. The humans who pass will need two full days to eke out a passing score; ChatGPT 2.0 will beat their scores in under an hour.

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Robert Williams