Have you ever sat in court because of a property dispute and wanted to yell out “@Grok, is this true?” at the judge? If the answer is yes and you happen to attend UChicago Law, you could have the opportunity to code your own bespoke LLM that will help you address the sort of legal problems that landlords and tenants have to deal with when things go wrong. UChicago will be offering a course aiming to democratize renter’s rights know-how to the public:
Students enrolled in the lab will spend the fall quarter building a database of meticulously researched summaries around [Renter’s rights]. 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.
The only real question is if the course requires a background in coding beyond what skills people managed to hold on to from changing their old MySpace pages. I’m probably dating myself a little there — chances are we’ve hit the point that people have started to code by using Chat-GPT. For what it’s worth, you can probably still use that to figure out who your top 8 friends are; just don’t be surprised if Sam Altman keeps popping up on the list for some reason.
The plan for the course is to inundate an LLM with data base of legal summaries that the public will be able to use. Limiting the pool of information that the LLM will pull from will not only make it more likely that users will get better answers than if they were to type their tenant related questions in to a more generalized LLM, the specificity of the information pool will probably make it a lot harder for users to end up developing psychosis from over-use. Kudos for embarking on an ambitious project with aspirations a bit more humble than feeding every case to AI so we can replace judges:
Landlord tenant law is an area where the public could definitely use a set of (automated?) hands. According to averages compiled by CivilRightToCounsel.org, landlords are represented by counsel 83% of the time compared to the downright dismal 4% that tenants enjoy. Going pro se with a UChigago AI program is unlikely to be as promising as managing to retain Alex Spiro on your matter, but it will (hopefully) help tenants fair better than going in empty handed.
Best of luck to Kimball Dean Parker and his class!
AI Lab is Coming to UChicago Law [UChigago]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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Have you ever sat in court because of a property dispute and wanted to yell out “@Grok, is this true?” at the judge? If the answer is yes and you happen to attend UChicago Law, you could have the opportunity to code your own bespoke LLM that will help you address the sort of legal problems that landlords and tenants have to deal with when things go wrong. UChicago will be offering a course aiming to democratize renter’s rights know-how to the public:
Students enrolled in the lab will spend the fall quarter building a database of meticulously researched summaries around [Renter’s rights]. 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.
The only real question is if the course requires a background in coding beyond what skills people managed to hold on to from changing their old MySpace pages. I’m probably dating myself a little there — chances are we’ve hit the point that people have started to code by using Chat-GPT. For what it’s worth, you can probably still use that to figure out who your top 8 friends are; just don’t be surprised if Sam Altman keeps popping up on the list for some reason.
The plan for the course is to inundate an LLM with data base of legal summaries that the public will be able to use. Limiting the pool of information that the LLM will pull from will not only make it more likely that users will get better answers than if they were to type their tenant related questions in to a more generalized LLM, the specificity of the information pool will probably make it a lot harder for users to end up developing psychosis from over-use. Kudos for embarking on an ambitious project with aspirations a bit more humble than feeding every case to AI so we can replace judges:
Landlord tenant law is an area where the public could definitely use a set of (automated?) hands. According to averages compiled by CivilRightToCounsel.org, landlords are represented by counsel 83% of the time compared to the downright dismal 4% that tenants enjoy. Going pro se with a UChigago AI program is unlikely to be as promising as managing to retain Alex Spiro on your matter, but it will (hopefully) help tenants fair better than going in empty handed.
Best of luck to Kimball Dean Parker and his class!
AI Lab is Coming to UChicago Law [UChigago]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
