Google experiment: AI-assisted patent drafting boosts output
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Google Research and NBER released a three-month field experiment involving 133 lawyers at 11 intellectual property law firms, who were randomly given access to what was then an unreleased Google Labs AI patent drafting assistant (now part of Gemini Notebook). The results show that AI assistance raised patent drafting output but did not accelerate the growth of junior lawyers' judgement.
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- Google ResearchSelectedDoes better work always mean better workers?
In “Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting”, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, we describe a field experiment used to capture changes in both short-term productivity and longer-term skill building that occur as a result of AI
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