Open Australian Legal GPT2

AI

legal language model

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#1,217of 3,109 in 2023
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How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interest in legal AI for making Australian legislation searchable

    From 1 comment
    • Is there a link to try it? This is literally the main application of ML that I’ve been awaiting for years. Making complex legislation and bureaucracy searchable and useful for…
      gitgud on HN

Objections

  • Model is too small to beat GPT-4 on Australian law questions

    From 2 comments
    • > 1) What’s the main use case for this? Originally, I intended to produce an LLM that could be used for answering questions related to Australian law, potentially via retrieval…
      ubutler on HN
    • See my response to /u/nextworddev (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38399702). In short, GPT-4 outperforms my LLM simply because my model is quite small (its smallest version…
      ubutler on HN

Requests

  • A link to try the model

    From 1 comment
    • Is there a link to try it? This is literally the main application of ML that I’ve been awaiting for years. Making complex legislation and bureaucracy searchable and useful for…
      gitgud on HN
  • Comparison against GPT-4 with retrieval augmented generation

    From 1 comment
    • How do you compare your own trained LLM versus using for example GPT4 + RAG (Vector DB + your Australian Law DB?
      vermaat on HN

Questions

  • What is the main use case for the model

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks for sharing. Two questions: 1)What’s the main use case for this? 2)Was training your own LLM necessary? How did GPT-4 compare?
      nextworddev on HN
  • Was training a custom LLM necessary versus GPT-4

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks for sharing. Two questions: 1)What’s the main use case for this? 2)Was training your own LLM necessary? How did GPT-4 compare?
      nextworddev on HN
    • How do you compare your own trained LLM versus using for example GPT4 + RAG (Vector DB + your Australian Law DB?
      vermaat on HN

Alternatives named

  • GPT-4

    From 2 comments
    • > 1) What’s the main use case for this? Originally, I intended to produce an LLM that could be used for answering questions related to Australian law, potentially via retrieval…
      ubutler on HN
    • See my response to /u/nextworddev (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38399702). In short, GPT-4 outperforms my LLM simply because my model is quite small (its smallest version…
      ubutler on HN
  • GPT 3.5 Turbo, Claude 2, Bard, Llama 2, Mistral

    From 1 comment
    • > 1) What’s the main use case for this? Originally, I intended to produce an LLM that could be used for answering questions related to Australian law, potentially via retrieval…
      ubutler on HN
  • DevonThink

    From 1 comment

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