Practical Tech Tips - AI Edition 🎉

2024 MSBA Legal Summit & Annual Meeting
Presentation Slides

A new set of tools can help you quickly develop both the form and content of written materials, analyze text, and translate back and forth between sounds, pictures, and text. With a significant focus on basic, inexpensive AI tools, this presentation will highlight practical technology tips and tools to save working time, increase your data security, and provide a better level of service.

  • Introduction to using generative AI
    • Definition: Computers performing tasks that normally require human intelligence
      • Visual perception​
      • Speech recognition​
      • Decision-making​
      • Translation between languages​
      • Pattern recognition and providing plausible responses to freeform questions
    • How to conceptualize AI tools
      • Beside: AI tools are separate programs or websites. You give it some context and a prompt and do something with the output.
        • Example: uploading a PDF to Claude and asking it questions about the content of a PDF. Or using ChatGPT to write an email draft that you then copy and paste into your email app.
      • Inside: Apps have AI tools built in.
        • Example: Microsoft Copilot in Word suggesting ways to rewrite a paragraph or generate a first draft.
      • Outside: AI is your assistant. You give the AI a task, and the AI selects the app to use, performs the task, and reports back on the outcome.
        • Example: none exist yet.
  • Using Chatbots
  • Microsoft Copilot
    • Copilot (previously Bing Chat) - free
      • Available on the web, Windows, MacOS, and iPadOS.
      • Access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo during non-peak times.
      • Upcoming access to GPT-4o.
      • Conversational search using text, voice, and images.
      • AI image creation and editing (15 boosts per day).
      • Use of plug-ins and shared GPTs.
    • Copilot Pro - $20 per month
      • Priority access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo
      • AI image creation and editing (100 boosts per day).
      • Integration into core Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook)
      • Custom Copilot Builder
    • Copilot for Microsoft 365 - $30 per month
      • All features of Copilot Pro
      • Copilot for Teams
      • Chatting with Copilot about data in your organization (e.g., asking Copilot if you have any emails in your inbox you need to respond to).
  • Collaboration
  • Legal Research
  • Multimedia and Translation
  • Cool Tools