Lecture: Inside the Legal AI Assistant: What Will It Take Over, and What Will You Still Get Paid For?

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There are more and more legal AI tools on the market, including several companies developing them in the Netherlands. But how do these tools actually work? In this talk, we’ll open the black box of Transformers and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in the legal domain. In simple, accessible terms, Masha will explain the technical ideas behind these tools, why their use is becoming inevitable, and the kinds of mistakes they’re bound to make. We’ll also look at why some systems might perform better than others, and why. To bring it to life, we’ll do a little demonstration of how you could build your own simple legal AI assistant. The session is for anyone curious about the development of AI in law and eager to understand what these systems really can and cannot do.

LEVEL: Basic

METHOD: Quantitative

PREREQUISITES: No prior knowledge is required.

ABOUT THE LECTURER: Dr. Masha Medvedeva is an Assistant Professor in Legal Technologies at Leiden University. She comes from a technical background but has been working in the legal domain for the past 8 years. Her research focuses on development of legal technologies and their impact on legal practice.

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