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Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs

2025/2/21
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Aatish Nayak: 我在快速发展的AI初创公司拥有丰富的产品领导经验,目前在Harvey领导产品工作。Harvey是一个针对法律和专业服务的特定领域AI产品,帮助律师自动化起草文件、信息整合、战略建议备忘录等工作。我们主要处理交易性工作(并购、融资等)、诉讼以及企业内部法律团队的工作。ChatGPT的出现提高了人们对生成式AI的认知,促使法律行业加速采用AI技术,市场竞争也推动了这一趋势。Harvey通过在各个职能部门嵌入法律专业知识,例如聘请律师担任销售人员和产品经理,从而更好地服务客户并推动产品落地。Harvey的AI系统模拟了律师事务所的工作流程,将任务分解并分派给不同的AI引擎,最终交付结果。法律行业需求无限,供给有限,AI可以帮助提高效率,解放律师从重复性工作中。生成式AI在法律领域的应用并非完全自动化,而是需要与人类协作完成复杂任务。Harvey的AI代理需要与人类协作,因为人类可能拥有AI代理不具备的信息或意图。无限的需求迫使律师事务所提高效率,采用AI技术以满足市场需求。企业用户需要培训和支持才能有效利用AI产品,Harvey通过多种方式提高用户利用率。Harvey将继续专注于法律领域,但也会利用现有项目和客户关系,逐步扩展到其他专业服务领域。Harvey将利用其在法律领域的经验和客户资源,逐步扩展到税务、金融等相关领域。Harvey通过与大型企业合作,以及与专业服务公司(如普华永道)合作,逐步扩展到新的垂直领域。Harvey与普华永道合作,定制开发税务和财务尽职调查系统,利用普华永道的数据和专业知识。Harvey重视企业数据安全,采取严格的数据保护措施,以赢得客户信任。Harvey从一开始就重视企业就绪性,采取严格的数据安全策略,建立客户信任。Harvey的AI产品开发理念是构建AI原生用户体验,让AI像同事一样与用户协作。由于法律领域缺乏统一的软件工具,Harvey选择构建AI原生用户体验,而非依赖现有工具。Harvey的AI原生用户体验旨在让AI像同事一样与用户互动,通过对话和反馈来完成工作。Harvey的设计理念借鉴了“宜家效应”,用户参与到工作流程中,会更有责任感和信任感。Harvey的AI代理会主动向用户请求反馈和信息,并根据用户的反馈迭代优化结果。目前AI原生用户体验仍处于发展阶段,未来需要更多创新,例如非文本交互方式。Harvey主要使用OpenAI模型,但其系统架构具有模块化,可以方便地切换不同的模型。切换模型需要进行大量的评估,以确保不会降低产品质量。Harvey利用内部和外部评估来改进AI系统并向客户传达价值。Harvey发布了Big Law Bench基准测试,以评估其AI系统在真实法律工作中的表现。新的OpenAI推理模型提高了Harvey在长篇文本起草和推理方面的能力。企业对AI的认知和应用仍处于早期阶段,许多企业尚未充分利用AI技术。企业对AI的应用和商业模式仍在不断演变,一些企业已经开始积极探索AI的应用。未来几年,企业AI的价值将体现在深入理解客户工作流程,并针对性地开发产品和用户体验。 Kimberly Tan:

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The legal field faces a challenge: an exponentially increasing demand for services, coupled with a limited supply of lawyers. This leads to long working hours and lawyers spending time on mundane tasks, hindering their ability to engage in more creative and impactful legal work. AI offers a solution to alleviate these issues.
  • Infinite demand for legal work due to globalization, the internet, and AI.
  • Constrained supply of lawyers leads to long working hours and mundane tasks.
  • AI can help automate mundane tasks, freeing up lawyers' time for more creative work.

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In this episode of AI + a16z, Aatish Nayak, head of product at Harvey), sits down with a16z partner Kimberly Tan to share his experience building AI products for enterprises — including the legal profession — and how to address areas like UX, trust, and customer engagement. Importantly, Aatish explains, industries like law don't need AGI or even the latest and greatest models; they need products that augment their existing workflows so they can better serve clients and still make it home for dinner.

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