ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot crafted by OpenAI, a non-profit American artificial intelligence research laboratory, which was launched in November 2022 and is powered by generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) -3.5, now GPT - 4.0 technology, and astounds with its human-like conversation skills. The artificial intelligence (AI) has Elon Musk among its co-founders and Sam Altman leading as CEO.

RELEVANCE AND THREAT TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Over the years, technology has been a tool for assisting legal professionals in helping clients solve their legal issues. Artificial intelligence such as chatbots (a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users) has become prominent in providing legal information to professionals from legal research, to providing an overview of an area of law, and suggesting arguments in a case. ChatGPT has shown us the capacity and capability of Artificial Intelligence which can take in an enormous amount of information and later reproduce or create new content for a user. The use of AI by lawyers would mean a fusion of machine and human knowledge which would enhance considerable advancement in the profession.

Despite its tremendous assistance, the legal profession has become apprehensive of Artificial Intelligence. Lawyers often wonder, is this the end of us? Are we going to be replaced by mere robots? Questions like this have become the basis of conversations among lawyers in different parts of the world. ChatGPT can only produce answers to legal questions based on the data it has consumed, this means that where enough resources or data has not been absorbed by the AI, it will be limited to the information stored, It is the typical garbage in garbage out.

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