As 2022 drew to a close, few legal professionals could imagine a more impressive—or disruptive—technology than ChatGPT. Although GPT-3.5, ChatGPT’s original underlying large language model (LLM) is now woefully outdated, the launch of GenAI into the cultural (and legal) zeitgeist was a moment in time that will go down in the history books.
A mere two-and-a-half years later, GenAI is verging on old news—this despite the slim odds of a newer, hotter technology unseating what once rendered the legal industry breathless.
Enter agentic AI. If you’ve paid any attention to legal tech over the last six months, “agents” has been a word that has been virtually inescapable. What started as a trickle of agentic news over a year ago has turned into a deluge of announcements.