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COO | Product Strategist | Data, Analytics & AI Leader | Guest Lecturer & Fellow at Stanford University
Honored to give an opening lecture at University of Cambridge for their inaugural LLM x Law Hackathon last weekend, hosted by King's Entrepreneurship Lab. 150 participants representing 28 universities world-wide aimed to learn and build disruptive legal solutions using generative AI. Here’s a recap and impressions on the hackathon. First, a few insights I shared to the audience of coders, lawyers, business folks and entrepreneurs: 1. Build toward the future of LLMs Build products that anticipate 10x improvements on models performance, cost, and risk mitigation (against hallucinations and more) in the next 1-2 years. Need to get ahead of the breakneck speed of innovation in this field, or become stale. 2. UX will be the next accelerator UX (user’s overall experience and interaction with products) has sorely lagged in LLMs. Improvements in this area would drastically accelerate usage/adoption. I shared thoughts on likely acceleration areas in UX, drawn from Dr. Megan Ma and my research at Stanford Law School - see link is in the comments below. 3. No sacred cows in legal Dispelled common myths as to why we can’t innovate in the legal space (too bespoke, insurmountable hurdles from legal industry, to name a few). I implored everyone to innovate with abandon. The aim would be to pursue delivery of legal services to and by stakeholders in an accessible, transparent and efficient manner. Then, the hallways of King’s College at Cambridge were teeming with entrepreneurial hackers and frenetic coding. I spoke with and traded ideas with dozens of participants. Was impressed by the focused energy and unbridled passion. The final generative AI-driven startup solutions were ambitious and wide-ranging: generative AI legal answers for users annotated by lawyers, multimodal analysis of documents/evidence to determine the strength of potential legal claims, volume contract obligation management for buyers and suppliers, optimized legal contract reviews and ediscovery, and many more. Stepping back, we are still at the ground floor for legal innovation using LLMs/generative AI. The next generation of disruptors and startups are being born today. King’s College joined us at Stanford Law School in staking claim as the next great hub for legal x LLM innovation. Who’s got next? All of us are ready to support you. Special thanks to the amazing and gracious organizers Kamiar Mohaddes, Annika Iyengar Zarja Hude, Mahika Popli and others. It was also a pleasure to represent CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics — alongside my distinguished colleagues Dr. Megan Ma , Harry Surden, and Pierre-Loic Doulcet — as collaborators in this event.
Liz Chase
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Loved your inspiring call to action Jay Mandal. I really appreciated your point about building/ designing for where the tech is going rather than the limitations it currently has.
Vivek Nasta
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I am honored to know you
Andrew Gaule
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A great talk and thanks for your support on the day.
Enam Hoque
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Please tell me there was a recording of this Jay Mandal, you rock the mic when you do these things 😃
Super inspirational talk! Thanks for having been at the hackathon and for sharing some insights
Vish Mishra
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This is wonderful Jay Mandal !! Very proud of your accomplishments. Wishing you all the best ahead!
Was great seeing you Jay Mandal, look forward to continuing the collaboration!
COO | Product Strategist | Data, Analytics & AI Leader | Guest Lecturer & Fellow at Stanford University
2wAs mentioned, here is the research paper published by Dr. Megan Ma and me - it has some novel ideas on how we think UX needs to evolve for future generative AI/LLM models, especially for enterprise use in areas like legal, medical and software/SaaS. https://law.stanford.edu/2023/11/16/redefining-ux-design-for-generative-ai-models-in-enterprise/