Students enrolled in the lab will spend the fall quarter building a database of meticulously researched summaries around that area of the law. The workshop will challenge students to approach the project with an entrepreneurial mindset as they learn what goes into making a legal-tech product. Part of the work will involve determining scope of need: Students will interview people to understand what questions they have around the topic to make sure that the tool they create is useful to general users.
“Generative AI is like a blender,” explained Parker. “The better the ingredients you put into the blender, the better the end-product will be. So, we’ll create a top-tier database of legal summaries and put it into our AI blender. And by the end of the course, we’ll release it to the public.”
The final product will be an AI chatbot, not unlike ChatGPT, focused on the rights of renters. The goal is to create something much more accurate and reliable than a general AI chat—a product that would serve individuals who need legal help but for financial reasons or otherwise do not have access to a lawyer.
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-lab-coming-uchicago-law
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