Scott here from spellbook.legal (mentioned above)!
We are finding LLMs do be incredibly powerful tools for legal drafting & review, mind-blowingly good. It is a whole new way of thinking as a programmer though: results are non-deterministic! Chaining together non-deterministic queries is much more of an art than science. I think it will take the software engineering profession a long time to get comfortable with that. It really requires tinkering at scale, but not necessarily formal methods.
I also think there is a perception that GPT-3 is “too easy” and you have to “learn to do things from first principles first”. I really disagree with that, and I wrote about that fallacy here.
One last point: GPT-3 has improved dramatically over the past 2 years. It’s not the same product it was when it launched. I don’t think many people have caught on to the level of improvement yet.
I thought I might catch the eyes of some of the folks I was mentioning, heh. I’m curious which notification system you use to find mentions of your work!
also, welcome to the safety nerds site, enjoy your stay, don’t destroy the world with stark differences in effective agency, and let’s end suffering using advanced technology! :)
Scott here from spellbook.legal (mentioned above)!
We are finding LLMs do be incredibly powerful tools for legal drafting & review, mind-blowingly good. It is a whole new way of thinking as a programmer though: results are non-deterministic! Chaining together non-deterministic queries is much more of an art than science. I think it will take the software engineering profession a long time to get comfortable with that. It really requires tinkering at scale, but not necessarily formal methods.
I also think there is a perception that GPT-3 is “too easy” and you have to “learn to do things from first principles first”. I really disagree with that, and I wrote about that fallacy here.
One last point: GPT-3 has improved dramatically over the past 2 years. It’s not the same product it was when it launched. I don’t think many people have caught on to the level of improvement yet.
I thought I might catch the eyes of some of the folks I was mentioning, heh. I’m curious which notification system you use to find mentions of your work!
also, welcome to the safety nerds site, enjoy your stay, don’t destroy the world with stark differences in effective agency, and let’s end suffering using advanced technology! :)
Your link goes to a private page, I’m afraid.