Microsoft Word

Exactly.

That's the kind of thing you might have used Microsoft Word for.

So that's

the default rule.

So one example would be like writing assistance, specifically that has gotten, you can start with really simple.

So you can go all the way back to the late 90s, early 2000s, with the introduction of spell and grammar checkers and things like Microsoft Word.

to advancements in that where like the sources are automated inside of grammar checkers which again has been present in standard writing software like microsoft word for a long time down to software that like when i was in college students were required to use so when i enrolled at concordia your student id came with a subscription to something everybody i think knows about called grammarly which is a writing assistant tool that does spell grammar check, but it also does recommendations on words and phrasing.

Well, Grammarly is now Grammarly AI, right? And it can help you rewrite or edit these things.

Well, it was always Grammarly AI.

2101.

Would you negotiate the price at first or would you just drink his beer and eat his pizza and then go home and go on to Microsoft Word and make an invoice for $300 and email it to him as an attachment? What's your kaupapa here?

Yeah, I wouldn't say it up front.

I wouldn't.

Contract review, the same thing.

Instead of having a generic AI contract, prompt, now we've all seen that you could add Claude to Microsoft Word and have it reading through and redlining according to your own playbook.

Just as the Associate General Counsel of Anthropic mentioned, I'll reiterate that You don't want to take the skill as is.

You want to go in there and you want to customize it and make it fit your practice.

Your AI will set up an assistant to brief you about anything that's happened that day.

You can actually connect Microsoft Word with Outlook and all of your data so that it just looks across that in the morning and you can set it to happen every day.

Let's say it's 7 a.m., or 8 AM, and it gives you a brief.

So to do all this good stuff, you do need to structure your workspace so that you keep things organized, or you can have AI help you to organize it.

I've got a bunch of statements that relate to the outcomes and the key components, and I pop those in.

And especially when I've written that mid-year one, I modify it slightly towards the end of the one and keep it on a separate Word document, as we were talking about before.

Yeah.

In case there's a technical glitch, I always put it on a Word document so we don't lose all of our work.

And I couldn't agree more with the slowing down thing.

I think we can tend to get a little frazzled and therefore become, I think, unproductive when we are frazzled if we think we haven't got enough time for it.

Microsoft, of course, owns its Office suite.

You have PowerPoint, you have Word, you have Excel.

and is incorporating things like Copilot into that as well.

Google doing something similar.

Like, a lot of, yeah, you think of, like, slide decks and board papers, a lot of that is bullet points.

And so you very quickly have to learn how to, like, adjust your style of writing and communication to be much more succinct, much more, like... clear and articulate and straight to the point and, you know, all these concepts that you're used to doing at university with like, you know, going into Microsoft Word and checking the word count regularly to see how you are.

Like all that goes away.

Like you don't,

2101.

Would you negotiate the price at first or would you just drink his beer and eat his pizza and then go home and go on to Microsoft Word and make an invoice for $300 and email it to him as an attachment? What's your kaupapa here?

Yeah, I wouldn't say it up front.

I wouldn't.