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title: "The Focus on ChatGPT Is Missing the Forest for the Tree: The Usual Suspect is Merely the Tip of the AI Iceberg"
description: ChatGPT is just the start. Casey Flaherty explores how tools like Med-PaLM reveal a seismic shift AI brings—and why legal can’t afford to look away.
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# [The Focus on ChatGPT Is Missing the Forest for the Tree: The Usual Suspect is Merely the Tip of the AI Iceberg](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/the-focus-on-chatgpt-is-missing-the-forest-for-the-tree-the-usual-suspect-is-merely-the-tip-of-the-ai-iceberg)

 Written by [Admin](https://blog.baretzbrunelle.com/insights/author/admin) | Feb 21, 2023 2:30:00 PM

In Law.com’s Part 2 of his series, [Casey Flaherty](https://www.baretzbrunelle.com/casey-flaherty), Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, challenges the legal industry’s fixation on ChatGPT, arguing it's merely a preview of what’s to come. He highlights how domain-specific applications of large language models (LLMs)—like Google’s Med-PaLM and Meta’s Cicero—demonstrate far more transformative potential. Med-PaLM, for example, is nearly as accurate as human clinicians and, crucially, slightly less harmful in its diagnostic suggestions.

Casey urges legal professionals to view these tools not as novelties or threats, but as serious, evolving capabilities that will soon recalibrate professional standards, whether the industry is ready or not.

[Read](https://www.bloomberglaw.com/document/X6G2H3PG000000?jcsearch=gmk45jkiei#jcite) the article to explore Casey’s insights.

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