No, Virginia, The Robot Lawyers Are Not Coming.

First, ChatGPT and generative AI is not going to become the brain of a robot lawyer, dressed up in a suit and tie, that will accompany you to Court. However, AI will certainly be a very smart assistant to you in and out of the courtroom. Many legal publishers are training AI computers and bots in a specific function, such as creating summary memos and other product based upon a mass of case law and secondary sources, that can save many hours of painstaking legal research. If you are a legal research assistant, or law clerk, who the lawyers in the firm rely upon for basic legal research, you need to be looking over your shoulder. If, like me, you are a solo lawyer without armies of legal assistants at your beck and call, the playing field just got even more level. For example, legal technology company Casetext has released CoCounsel, which it describes as the first AI legal assistant, aimed at improving access to legal research. Casetext's AI assistant is trained on its legal information database and is more reliable than other language models that have been known to offer false information, and can assist lawyers by reading text, summarizing it, annotating it, translating it, categorizing text, synthesizing it and interpreting it. AI is not, however,  a "robot lawyer" and won't replace lawyers.