The latest Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) has been published and focuses on legal research. It’s certainly got attention because key players didn’t take part and AI clearly ‘beat’ human lawyers. AL takes a look at what it all means.
First, what is Vals? It’s a US business working on the evaluation of AI systems. The focus here on legal research is just one of many projects they run. They brought in a group of legal AI companies, some human lawyers, and also tested against a general model. In this case the evaluated products were Alexi, Counsel Stack, Midpage, plus ChatGPT. At least one major vendor did take part, but then didn’t want its results made public (more on that below).
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