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Re:GitHub Copilot by sennight on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:28AM (#27685220)
I wouldn't describe keyword search engines or cross reference managers as "quite automated" - so I would expect little market change from whatever LexisNexis is currently selling.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:36AM (#27687700)
I would -- I remember my mom as a lawyer having to schlep to the UCLA law library to photocopy stuff -- but current legal automation includes NLP at the level of individual clauses.

https://www.suls.org.au/citations-blog/2020/9/25/natural-lan...

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Re:GitHub Copilot by sennight on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:00AM (#27689368)
Oof, as somebody who has studied the AI winter - that article hurt, suggesting that an unsupervised NN-centric approach is going to lead somewhere other than tool-assist... its the 1970s all over again.

> I would

Well you're going to have a problem describing actual automation when you encounter it. What would you call it when NLP results are fed into an inference engine that then actually executes actions - instead of just providing summarized search results? Super-duper automation?

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