Alex Smith

Alex Smith

@alexgsmith.bsky.social

Longtime Legal Tech person, used to have Twitter game but maybe too old and counting down to retirement πŸ˜‰

175 Followers 47 Following 61 Posts Joined Oct 2023
1 year ago

I mean, I like Chris Mason. But he knows fuck all about AI.

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1 year ago

I hate the kneejerk response from broadcasters to treat "announcement by politician, therefore it's a politics story". This is a tech and enterprise story being announced by the PM. Do the tech and enterprise angle.

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1 year ago
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NYC restaurant. Best buy of tech in last few years

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1 year ago
The state of eDiscovery in a nutshell. A blocked Suez Canal where the remedy is a tiny tractor digging out a massive container ship. #ediscovery #ediscoverylife #humor

For my next trick, I will escape from Alcatraz with a spoon.

The Gates Dogfish eDiscovery Notebook Experiment is underway. Be one of the first to know when it's ready! Drop your email here for updates and a sneak peek: forms.gle/xBa64WURJwo5... #ediscovery #ediscoverylife #litigationsupport #humor

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1 year ago

Most of the interesting people don’t post πŸ˜­πŸ˜€πŸ˜‰

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1 year ago

Everyone is actually working right now. At least the interesting people. The last two years have been like no others.

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1 year ago

Everyone is too busy sharing selfies on LinkedIn πŸ˜‰

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1 year ago

I'm continuing to bet that caring about the details, purpose, a focus on process and assets/tools, and continuous improvement will beat making it up as one goes along + random word generators.

If random word generators help, we will of course fit them into the process as just another tool

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1 year ago

I'm least confident about 2, but as the diagram shows, if it really works, of course everyone is going to be using it.

My strongly-held beliefs are that processes matter, tools are tools, and creating relationships is what matters most and that's a very human activity.

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1 year ago

Most Test hundreds since the start of 2021:

1. Joe Root (19)
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2. Kane Williamson (9)
3. Harry Brook (8)
4= Dimuth Karunaratne, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne (7)

#NZvENG

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1 year ago

the final frontier of everyone leaving platforms is everyone having homepages again

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1 year ago

when we go back to an internet of homepages we will need a good tool to index and search them. I hope it's possible

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1 year ago

Are AI Agent going to work? Most firms need to grasp their hard underlying processes first before any magic.

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1 year ago
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Also in the category of β€œLOLLM”, I give you:

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1 year ago

So sorry to hear this Ed, thoughts with you and all his other close friends and colleagues who were on his journey with him. πŸ’”

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1 year ago

I decided to β€œupgrade” my LinkedIn profile πŸ˜‰

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1 year ago

Few years in and you embrace insanity.

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1 year ago

After humility has been learned the hard way, the more interesting questions emerge around situations where deterministic systems may help and what would need to be true

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1 year ago
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Wow PwC in SCL. Will I soon be known as the β€œGodfather of IA before AI” in professional services …

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1 year ago

#IAbeforeAI

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1 year ago

What’s that sound … ah the sound of flocking.

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1 year ago

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

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1 year ago

Only 23 Gregg Wallace apologies until Christmas

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Loving this post on the power of curation and why? Great content is core not just to great outcomes but also to grounding new technology like AI. Coming through the other side of the last 2 years ...

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1 year ago

Of course it's no. But it can be done with amply available existing resources aka humans

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1 year ago

having a cat stand on your chest and nuzzle your face is a life well lived

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1 year ago

so how do I get to a standard starting point for a new contract etc? I'm doing more and more knowledge projects right now as firms realise the importance of this content? So how do we see lawyers doing work differently now with change perimeters. I'd suggest humans doing the tweet are more impt now

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1 year ago
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The rise of US-style tipping β€” and why Britons are (politely) rebelling Despite being bombarded with tipping prompts on card machines, Britons are not bowing to the pressure to give more, figures show

The endless creep of adding tips drives me mad. I stayed at a posh hotel for a night in the summer and they had the absolute cheek to tell me they'd add 5% to my bill as a "discretionary service charge". I think the very fuck not: I was already paying a fair whack for service. They took it off.

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