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Lawyer reflects on AI's leap from early neural nets to LLMs

Original: When I went to # law school, the state-of-the-art # AI was still Rumelhart’s BP and Kohonen’s SOM. That was a roundabout

A lawyer and academic notes that when he attended law school, the cutting edge of artificial intelligence consisted of Rumelhart's backpropagation and Kohonen's self-organizing maps. He argues law students of his era learned to read and write the way lawyers do rather than relying on tools, and observes that today most lawyers he knows use large language models in their daily work.

Why now: Widespread debate over how AI tools like LLMs are changing legal training and professional practice.

David RumelhartTeuvo Kohonenlarge language models

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• When I went to # law school, the state-of-the-art # AI was still Rumelhart’s BP and Kohonen’s SOM. That was a roundabout way of saying that we learned to read and write the way lawyers do, instead of relying on the LLM. Today, most lawyers I know use the LLM with their… · AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz · 8

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