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� � � � � � Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law - The Economist    LAWYERS are a conservative bunch, befitting a profession that rewards preparedness, sagacity and respect for precedent. No doubt many enjoyed a chuckle at the tale of Steven Schwartz, a personal-injury lawyer at the New York firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, who last month used ChatGPT to help him prepare a court filing. He relied a bit too heavily on the artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot. It created a motion replete with made-up cases, rulings and quotes, which Mr Schwartz promptly filed after the bot assured him that the “cases I provided are real and can be found in reputable legal databases” (they were not, and cannot). Lesson learned, a tech-sceptic lawyer might conclude: the old ways are the best. That is the wrong lesson. Blaming AI for Mr Schwartz’s error-filled brief makes no more sense than blaming the printing press for mistakes in a typed one. In both cases, fault lies with the lawyer who failed to check the motion before filing it, not the tool that helped produce it. For that is what AI is: neither a fad nor an apocalypse, but a tool in its infancy—and one that could radically change how lawyers work and law firms make money. The legal profession is hardly the only field about which one could say that. But few combine as clear a use case with so high a risk. Firms that get it right stand to reap rewards. Laggards risk going the way of typesetters. According to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, a bank, 44% of legal tasks could be performed by AI, more than in any occupation surveyed except for clerical and administrative support. Lawyers spend an awful lot of time scrutinising tedious documents—the sort of thing that AI has already demonstrated it can do well. Lawyers use AI for a variety of tasks, including due diligence, research and data analytics. These applications have largely relied on “extractive” AI, which, as the name suggests, extracts information from a text, answering specific questions about its contents. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium CEO of Europe's largest budget airline brushes off Italy's investigation into low-cost carriers as a 'joke' - Fortune Europe    The outspoken boss of Europe’s biggest budget airline has laid into Italy, describing the country’s antitrust investigation into the company as a “joke” driven by populist politics. Speaking at a press conference in Lisbon, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary took aim at Italy’s government as his airline fights an investigation by competition regulators into its pricing of domestic flights. “It’s just Italian politics,” he said, Reuters reported. “You have a bunch of populists running around in Italy…it’s what populist politicians do.” Continued here � � � � � � Return-to-Office Plans Don't Have to Undermine Employee Autonomy - Harvard Business Review    In recent years, organizations have been hard at work reviewing, renewing, articulating, and disseminating their corporate purpose. Renewed corporate purpose statements have more explicitly centered human-centric values, such as employee well-being, growth, and inclusion. This has been a good thing: Gartner research shows that businesses who put these human-centric values front and center see better talent and business outcomes. However, return-to-office mandates, if not done strategically and transparently, can feel like an about-face in employee flexibility, autonomy, and well-being, and starkly at odds with a human-centric corporate purpose. The authors identified three imperatives to help leaders navigate the return-to-office revolution in a way that strengthens, rather than damages, employees’ connection to the organization and its purpose. For a long time, the purpose of most corporations was to serve one primary stakeholder: shareholders. Over the last several years, there has been a concrete shift in the business world; corporations now aim to serve not only shareholders, but all stakeholders — including customers, employees, suppliers, and communities. Continued here � � � � � � Lost in Translation: What the First Line of "The Stranger" Should Be - The New Yorker    For the modern American reader, few lines in French literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus's "L'Étranger": "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte." Nitty-gritty tense issues aside, the first sentence of "The Stranger" is so elementary that even a schoolboy with a base knowledge of French could adequately translate it. So why do the pros keep getting it wrong? Stuart Gilbert, a British scholar and a friend of James Joyce, was the first person to attempt Camus's "L'Étranger" in English. In 1946, Gilbert translated the book's title as "The Outsider" and rendered the first line as "Mother died today." Simple, succinct, and incorrect. In 1982, both Joseph Laredo and Kate Griffith produced new translations of "L'Étranger," each opting for Gilbert's revised title, "The Stranger," but preserving his first line. "Mother died today" remained, and it wasn't until 1988 that the line saw a single word changed. It was then that American translator and poet Matthew Ward reverted "Mother" back to Maman. One word? What's the big deal? A large part of how we view and—alongside the novel's court—ultimately judge Meursault lies in our perception of his relationship with his mother. We condemn or set him free based not on the crime he commits but on our assessment of him as a person. Does he love his mother? Or is he cold toward her, uncaring, even? Continued here

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