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OpenAI, maker of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, recently made a big claim. It announced that its latest GPT 4.0 model was able to obtain a score on the Multistate Bar Examination in the 90th percentile.1 This was up from a score in the 10th percentile achieved with GPT 3.0, the large language model that has been used underneath the freely accessible version of ChatGPT. Frankly, I was surprised and disappointed that it could not get a perfect score. I will tell you why and, in the process, unpack what generative AI is all about and how it might affect the legal profession generally, and the bar exam specifically.