Nikki Shaver
@nikjet.bsky.social
Legaltech, legal innovation, #GenAI, data. Bibliophile and eternal student. CEO | co-founder @ Legaltech Hub. Adjunct Professor @ Cardozo Law. Former BigLaw innovation leader and lawyer. Come for the hot takes, stay for geek mode.
@askperplexity.bsky.social what is the recent news on AI that we should all know today?
March 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@askperplexity.bsky.social what is the recent news on AI that we should all know today?
This was a great conversation on #DeepSeek - looking forward to hearing more Office Hours discussions from Lega!
Had a great chat with @nikjet.bsky.social, Michael McGinn, and Conan Hines on the #DeepSeek R1 release and the impact on #legal. Hope some of you find it valuable!
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Think Lega "Office Hours" #1: Diving Deep on DeepSeek R1
Join us as we explore the new open-source, open-weights model taking the world by storm and its implications for the legal industry.
think.lega.ai
February 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This was a great conversation on #DeepSeek - looking forward to hearing more Office Hours discussions from Lega!
It’s a really eerie feeling when someone’s AI assistant joins a meeting before they do or anyone else does and then it’s just you and the AI on the call…
January 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It’s a really eerie feeling when someone’s AI assistant joins a meeting before they do or anyone else does and then it’s just you and the AI on the call…
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Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
By Paul Sawers
techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/h...
#books #publicdomain
By Paul Sawers
techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/h...
#books #publicdomain
Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset | TechCrunch
AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that
techcrunch.com
December 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
By Paul Sawers
techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/h...
#books #publicdomain
By Paul Sawers
techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/h...
#books #publicdomain
OpenAI announced “12 Days of Shipmas” - starting today, they will release product launches and demos every day for 12 days.
Today’s release:
🎄a new tier of ChatGPT subscription, ChatGPT Pro, and…
🎄the full version of o1!
#AI
www.theverge.com/24314146/ope...
Today’s release:
🎄a new tier of ChatGPT subscription, ChatGPT Pro, and…
🎄the full version of o1!
#AI
www.theverge.com/24314146/ope...
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘ship-mas:’ all the new announcements
Follow along with OpenAI’s launches.
www.theverge.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:28 PM
OpenAI announced “12 Days of Shipmas” - starting today, they will release product launches and demos every day for 12 days.
Today’s release:
🎄a new tier of ChatGPT subscription, ChatGPT Pro, and…
🎄the full version of o1!
#AI
www.theverge.com/24314146/ope...
Today’s release:
🎄a new tier of ChatGPT subscription, ChatGPT Pro, and…
🎄the full version of o1!
#AI
www.theverge.com/24314146/ope...
I’m a sucker for a good holiday movie but #ChatGPT could write better plot lines and dialogue than a lot of the Hallmark ones flooding Netflix at the moment…
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I’m a sucker for a good holiday movie but #ChatGPT could write better plot lines and dialogue than a lot of the Hallmark ones flooding Netflix at the moment…
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AI can bring benefits but we must find the appropriate use cases. We can’t do that without having some understanding of the tech. Firm wide AI literacy, mandated by the EU AI Act is a start. Art 4 is in force 2 February 2025
#irishresearch #legaltech #aigovernance
#irishresearch #legaltech #aigovernance
“Even if the use of ChatGPT becomes an accepted practice within the [legal] profession, this will not necessarily provide a full defence to a negligence claim”- Irish Law Gazette, April 2023. Relying on LLMs without oversight remains an issue for all professionals. www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets...
November 28, 2024 at 12:12 PM
AI can bring benefits but we must find the appropriate use cases. We can’t do that without having some understanding of the tech. Firm wide AI literacy, mandated by the EU AI Act is a start. Art 4 is in force 2 February 2025
#irishresearch #legaltech #aigovernance
#irishresearch #legaltech #aigovernance
Did you know that over 200 state and federal judges in the U.S. have issued orders or amended orders to address #AI use and misuse in their courtrooms?
Judicial activism is alive & well. Talk about a complex landscape for litigators: no uniformity or consistency, just a Wild West of court orders.
Judicial activism is alive & well. Talk about a complex landscape for litigators: no uniformity or consistency, just a Wild West of court orders.
November 28, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Did you know that over 200 state and federal judges in the U.S. have issued orders or amended orders to address #AI use and misuse in their courtrooms?
Judicial activism is alive & well. Talk about a complex landscape for litigators: no uniformity or consistency, just a Wild West of court orders.
Judicial activism is alive & well. Talk about a complex landscape for litigators: no uniformity or consistency, just a Wild West of court orders.
In one of my talks on change, I used a slide with a picture of a rotary dial phone to depict “the olden days.”
Except these are photos from the last two hotels I’ve stayed at, one in Detroit and one in Amsterdam.
#changemanagement
Except these are photos from the last two hotels I’ve stayed at, one in Detroit and one in Amsterdam.
#changemanagement
November 28, 2024 at 3:22 AM
In one of my talks on change, I used a slide with a picture of a rotary dial phone to depict “the olden days.”
Except these are photos from the last two hotels I’ve stayed at, one in Detroit and one in Amsterdam.
#changemanagement
Except these are photos from the last two hotels I’ve stayed at, one in Detroit and one in Amsterdam.
#changemanagement
“Remove the squid”
How Claude responds when you push it to the limit.
How Claude responds when you push it to the limit.
I never posted it here… Claude handles an insane request:
“Remove the squid”
“The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.”
“Figure out a way to remove the 🦑“
“Remove the squid”
“The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.”
“Figure out a way to remove the 🦑“
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 AM
“Remove the squid”
How Claude responds when you push it to the limit.
How Claude responds when you push it to the limit.
Reposted by Nikki Shaver
My weekly column for Legaltech Hub. Come for the GenAI and legal tech updates, stay for the robot kidnapping stories. www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/why...
Why I’m Thankful for GenAI (and Happy Birthday, ChatGPT!)
To paraphrase the immortal words of classic rock band Styx, domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, for helping make these past two years so fun to write about.
This week, most Americans will be celebrating Thank...
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November 27, 2024 at 2:56 AM
My weekly column for Legaltech Hub. Come for the GenAI and legal tech updates, stay for the robot kidnapping stories. www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/why...
Yet another case where an AI-generated brief was filed by a lawyer without verification. Sure enough, hallucinated citation. 🤦🏻♀️
Court orders fine but also that lawyer complete course on #GenAI.
Court orders fine but also that lawyer complete course on #GenAI.
Anthropic's Claude used for legal brief writing. Results in hallucinated citation. Attorney sanctioned with monetary penalty.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Texas lawyer fined for AI use in latest sanction over fake citations
A Texas federal judge sanctioned an attorney for submitting a court filing with nonexistent cases and quotations generated by artificial intelligence, as mistakes by AI continue to land lawyers in hot water.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Yet another case where an AI-generated brief was filed by a lawyer without verification. Sure enough, hallucinated citation. 🤦🏻♀️
Court orders fine but also that lawyer complete course on #GenAI.
Court orders fine but also that lawyer complete course on #GenAI.
Reposted by Nikki Shaver
Big day for Anthropic tomorrow. Court will hear argument on Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction. I’m skeptical but we’ll see
November 24, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Big day for Anthropic tomorrow. Court will hear argument on Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction. I’m skeptical but we’ll see
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I love that when I say "the good place" and "the bad place" everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about.
November 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
I love that when I say "the good place" and "the bad place" everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Reposted by Nikki Shaver
Bluesky feels like the IRC channel for #legaltech geeks, but now we’ve all got better wifi. #geeksunite
November 22, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Bluesky feels like the IRC channel for #legaltech geeks, but now we’ve all got better wifi. #geeksunite
Xmas gift idea: banned books.
Buy all banned books as presents
November 23, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Xmas gift idea: banned books.
Another case in which false AI generated content was submitted to the court. In this case, a Stanford professor (Hancock) serving as an expert submitted a sworn declaration citing a study that does not exist, likely a hallucination generated by an LLM.
#AI #GenAI #legalAI #legal
#AI #GenAI #legalAI #legal
Stanford professor accused of using AI-generated falsehoods in court case sparks ethical debate
https://buff.ly/4fIzV3k
#LegalTech #AIethics #Deepfakes
https://buff.ly/4fIzV3k
#LegalTech #AIethics #Deepfakes
November 23, 2024 at 3:04 AM
This is a wonderful start to the shake-up of education financing that the US needs.
MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia
November 23, 2024 at 2:10 AM
This is a wonderful start to the shake-up of education financing that the US needs.
New filing: "Dow Jones v. Perplexity AI (News Corp sues Perplexity for copyright and false designation of origin)"
Doc #27: Order for Initial Pretrial Conference
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL69280523
Doc #27: Order for Initial Pretrial Conference
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL69280523
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Interesting measure of “AI vibrancy”: the Global AI power Rankings, measuring AI use and activity in 36 countries.
No surprise to see the US and the UK high up there. China is in second place, but according to the report, increasingly falling behind the US.
#AI #GenAI
No surprise to see the US and the UK high up there. China is in second place, but according to the report, increasingly falling behind the US.
#AI #GenAI
#Stanford Institute for Human-Centered #ArtificialIntelligence (HAI) has created a tool that measures the strength of AI ecosystems based on a country’s #economy, ##infrastructure, #education, and #governance. #AI dev-hai-aiindex.pantheonsite.io/vibrancy/
dev-hai-aiindex.pantheonsite.io
November 22, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Learned something interesting about prompting yesterday: if you put something in ALL CAPS, the model will pay greater attention to it. (Probably learned from US contracts…)
Next time you’re prompting, if you’re having trouble getting one aspect across, try capitalizing it.
#AI #GenAI
Next time you’re prompting, if you’re having trouble getting one aspect across, try capitalizing it.
#AI #GenAI
November 22, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Apple released a paper in early October that has been widely shared in “pop AI circles” (ie non-data scientists interested in AI) as concluding that LLMs cannot / do not “reason.”
It’s worth watching this video where Yannic Kilcher disputes that.
#AI #GenAI
It’s worth watching this video where Yannic Kilcher disputes that.
#AI #GenAI
GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
YouTube video by Yannic Kilcher
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November 22, 2024 at 2:13 PM