#Litigator embracing #LegalAI. #GeorgetownLaw alum. Prior career as Emmy nominated investigative journalist. RTs not endorsements. Views my own.
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AI won’t take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI better than you, will take your job.
We’re already starting to see what kind of new jobs AI is creating.
AI requires significant technical work and surrounding services to deploy into the economy. This means jobs for AI engineers that build applied AI products sold to (or within) enterprises, FDEs to deploy agents into companies, new services firms for deploying AI, and more.
And even the published stats of new jobs undercount all the existing jobs that are transitioning to new areas of AI work in an enterprise. Many prior data, research, and software jobs large enterprises are also being repositioned for working with AI.
Every bank, life sciences company, manufacturer, and even law firm is bringing on more technical talent -or repositioning existing roles- to help with agent deployment in their companies. It’s a lot easier to picture what AI can replace vs. what it creates until it starts happening. Now we’re seeing what this looks like.
Sean Lavin retweeted
As practicing litigators know, the real gold standard is having to stand up in court and defend what you wrote.
Opposing counsel isn’t going to grade your answer - they are going to try to take it apart. They’ll find the bad fact you glossed over, the case you stretched, and the concession you didn’t realize you made. That experience changes how you evaluate the next piece of work.
My preferences are well and good and a worthwhile data point, but the more useful signal comes from what happens when the work is actually used.
The gold standard for evaluating complex legal work is partner review.
Partners can cost over $3,000 an hour and associates $1,000, making expert review expensive at scale.
Evaluating a model on LAB through expert review alone would cost millions of dollars.
In practice, we combine rubric-based LLM scoring with sampled human preference.
But rubrics miss errors beyond predefined criteria, and human reviewers get fatigued and make mistakes at scale.
We built a generative reward model to bridge this gap by training agents to approximate partner review.
We give these agents the original outputs, web search, and other tools to check our systems’ work.
We find that their judgments correlate strongly with expert lawyer review.
This approach will help us scale human review across model training and production products, and will be central to training Tenet 1.5.
Sean Lavin retweeted
There is a loss of power affecting the signaling system between 125 St and 145 St. From 125 St, you can use the East Village bound M101, LGA Airport bound M60-SBS, The Hub bound M125 buses to Lexington Av/125 St for uptown #4 trains or use M3 buses to 155 St for Bronx bound BX6.
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🚨🇺🇸 ORACLE CEO: FROM CANCER DETECTION TO CUSTOM VACCINE WITHIN 48 HOURS WITH AI
Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison:
“One of the most exciting things we're working on, using the tools that Sam and Masa are providing, is a cancer vaccine.
Using AI you can do early cancer detection with a blood test and once we gene sequence that cancer tumor, you can then vaccinate the person, design a vaccine for every individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer.
You can make that mRNA vaccine robotically using AI in about 48 hours.
So imagine early cancer detection, the development of a cancer vaccine for your particular cancer aimed at you, and have that vaccine available in 48 hours.
This is the promise of AI and the promise of the future.”
Source: Sky News
🚨🇺🇸 SOFTBANK CEO: THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA
SoftBank CEO, Masayoshi Son:
“ Mr. President, last month I came to celebrate your winning and promised that we will invest 100 billion.
You told me, 'Oh, Masa, go for 200!'
Now I came back with 500, because this is the beginning of the golden age of America.”
Source: Sky News
Sean Lavin retweeted
"I'm sure the case exists. You should be able to find it in a few minutes, no sweat."
Sean Lavin retweeted
FSU Board of Trustees vs Atlantic Coast Conference
Judge John C. Cooper assigned to the case in Leon County
He’s an FSU alumnus
Sean Lavin retweeted
Huge win for public access in Florida: Marsy's law does not make confidential the names of law enforcement officers involved in shootings. The law protects only victim location information, not victim names, Florida Supreme Court holds unanimously. supremecourt.flcourts.gov/co…
Sean Lavin retweeted
As @emollick has been suggesting, the issue is not just students submitting AI-written papers. It's all the ways a student might want to rely on AI for help; summarizing large amounts of reading (instead of doing it); getting ideas for papers (instead of thinking them up); etc.
Sean Lavin retweeted
3. IBM Replacing 7800 Jobs with AI
In a stunning example of the real impact AI is having, IBM is eliminating 7800 jobs.
It seems one of the first places AI is eliminating jobs is white-collar work at old-school big tech companies.
Source: @livemint
Sean Lavin retweeted
Why do some public record requests to Florida agencies take months to obtain? Perhaps @GovRonDeSantis is “reviewing” them first. A 🧵…. 1/9
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No your eyes do not deceive you… it’s actually snowing in NYC. – at Washington Heights, Manhattan
Sean Lavin retweeted
This is a picture of me in the prison yard in the thick of all of this. Everyone is going through something, even when they're smiling. If that sounds like you, I hope reading this helps.
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Hard to believe this was 4 years ago.
Just some college journalists doing what we loved. It’s been a while since the two of us spoke but one thing is for sure, Dylan loved journalism and everything about being a journalist.
My prayers are with his family and the @MyNews13 team
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UCF journalism professor @RickBrunson1 appeared on WFTV saying the News 13 reporter who died was a UCF grad and loved what he did.
We can confirm that as well - the reporter also reported for Knight News and was truly dedicated and loved reporting.
He will be missed.
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Per the bill: “A statement by an anonymous source is presumed to be false in a defamation cause of action.” – at Tallahassee, FL
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is plowing ahead with his plan to make it easier to see media outlets for defamation and libel.
The bill was just filed in the state House (HB 951):
myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/…
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#BREAKINGNEWS: The Anaheim Police Department is investigating the death of a woman who reportedly jumped or fell from a parking structure at Disneyland. abc7.com/disneyland-woman-de…
Sean Lavin retweeted
I saw both of my grandparents yesterday. They are at peace and—as always—their home is full of love. Thank you all for your kind words
Sean Lavin retweeted
Disney is seeking “volunteers” (i.e. unpaid, non-unionized labor) to staff 8+ hour shifts at races where it charges >$200 per participant (and there are tens of thousands runners).
Sean Lavin retweeted
UPDATE: The Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments to allow for the Supreme Court to rule in the case on the student debt relief program.
The pause will end no later than June 30, 2023. Payments will resume 60 days after the pause ends.
ALT News: Student loan repayment pause has been extended to no later than June 30, 2023. Payments will resume 60 days after the pause ends.