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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm<\/p>","photos":[{"photo":215707,"caption":""}],"venue":"

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Dr. Eliza Mik has joined the CUHK Faculty of Law in January 2021. Before academia, she worked in-house for a number of software and telecommunications companies in Australia, Poland, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. She advised on software licensing, technology procurement and e-commerce regulation. Dating back to her PhD thesis, Eliza\u2019s interests have always centered on the private law aspects of e-commerce and on general problems of transaction automation, particularly with the use of technologies commonly referred to as Artificial Intelligence. Eliza is also one of the most cited authors on the topic of \u201csmart contracts.\u201d In recent years, as part of a research grant, her academic explorations also include the use of large language models in the legal profession. At present, she is a member of the UNCITRAL Expert Group for the Digital Economy, a member of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform on ODR (iGLIP, Hong Kong), a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Society and Technology (TILT, Netherlands) and an Affiliate Researcher with the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne (CAIDE, Australia).<\/p>","admission":"

https:\/\/cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk\/webform\/view.php?id=13706640<\/a><\/p>","enquiry":"

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Much has changed since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022. It is, in fact, difficult to keep up with the relentless stream of news regarding new AI-based tools. Each week we are informed of new developments, each of them (purportedly) groundbreaking and unprecedented \u2013 at least if we choose to believe the mainstream press and the marketing efforts of major software vendors. To recall, the introduction of DeepSeek\u2019s R1 model in the end of January sparked a major sell-off in NVIDIA stock and marked China\u2019s arrival on the international LLM arena. Maybe it is unnecessary to rely on big US-based software vendors after all; maybe large investments in hardware are not justified. Leaving aside questions of intellectual property and AI regulation, we must ask: which of the LLM-based products are of direct relevance to the practicing lawyer? Which can be useful in the performance of everyday tasks? Even the less technically-inclined lawyers face the prospect of being left behind unless they catch-up with developments in this field. Some LLM-based tools can, indeed, result in efficiency gains. Others are outright dangerous to use \u2013 unless their users exercise extreme caution and verify each generated output. Is it more efficient to expend resources to do things in a traditional manner or to deploy LLMs? As it turns out, everything depends on the task and the tool at hand. Legal research differs from legal reasoning and tools that are suitable for student papers may not be suitable in the performance of high-risk tasks. Lawyers must not only evaluate LLMs in light of potential efficiency gains but also heed privacy and confidentiality concerns.<\/p>\r\n

The seminar addresses the following questions:<\/p>\r\n

\u2022 What are the most important recent developments in AI that are directly relevant to practicing lawyers?
\r\n\u2022 What are the best AI-based tools that can be used in legal practice?
\r\n\u2022 What are the legal tasks amenable to automation?
\r\n\u2022 What is the significance of DeepSeek?
\r\n\u2022 Have LLMs become more \u201ctrustworthy\u201d and reliable?<\/p>\r\n

Lastly, the seminar will clarify some technical terms, such as \u201cinference\u201d or \u201ccontext window,\u201d that are indispensable to understand the capabilities of the multitude of available LLM-based tools.<\/p>\r\n

CLINDS\u2019s 28th LegalTech Seminar \u2013 \u2018From DeepSeek to Perplexity \u2013 How Lawyers Can Leverage Breakthroughs in AI\u2019 by Prof. Eliza Mik (Online)<\/a><\/p>","intro":"","remarks":"

Language: English<\/p>\r\n

CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).<\/p>","contact_information":{"contact_person":"Bonnie Leung","contact_number":"39435508","contact_email":"swleung@cuhk.edu.hk","department":"CUHK LAW"},"content_migrated":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"original_contact_id":""},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2027-10-25 09:52:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/215659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/215659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215711,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/215659\/revisions\/215711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215659"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=215659"},{"taxonomy":"event_participants","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_participants?post=215659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}