Where the heck have I been all this time?

The author, a former Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab researcher, spent three years building a legal writing tool after ChatGPT's 2022 launch, only to face insurmountable challenges with GenAI hallucinations. He suffered a heart attack and stroke in July, followed by a 10-week recovery, explaining his extended absence.

I owe you all an explanation of where I have been. The story starts in 2022 when ChatGPT came out and everyone decided to get rich. I know I did. So, I bullied my dear friend – a legendary lawyer – into building a legal writing tool. Within a week we knew our mission was close to impossible because of failures in GenAI. There were imperfect products we could have sold but didn’t – dooming ourselves instead to a three-year product cycle to defeat the nightmare called LLM hallucinations. I was the chief architect, in over my head despite starting at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Then last July I had a heart attack and a stroke followed by 10 weeks in … The post