Ai Machine Learning in Industry
Ai Machine Learning in Industry
Ai Machine Learning in Industry
David Beyer
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Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning in
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Perspectives from Leading Practitioners
David Beyer
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follows with a discussion of AI in education; Jake Heller takes us on
a tour of machine learning and the law; Aaron Kimball illuminates
the otherwise hidden world of microbes and their commercial use;
Bryce Meredig describes the application of machine learning to
materials and the periodic table; and finally, Erik Andrejko discusses
his work at Climate Corporation and the role machine learning
plays in farming and agriculture.
Why don’t we start with your background and how you got to
Casetext?
I grew up in Silicon Valley, and have been coding from an early age.
My dad founded an internet company in our garage in ’94. As his
company grew, I worked alongside him on weekends, nights, and
summers, giving me a head start on web technology. And for the
longest time, I envisioned a career in programming. My passion for
code gave way to a keen interest in policy, through high school
speech and debate, and then, in turn, to law. At Stanford Law
School, I applied myself primarily to questions of technology law
and policy.
After graduating and a few years into my legal practice, I kept
returning to an idea that I started thinking about in law school. I
knew, both in theory and from personal experience, that lawyers
spend 20–30% of their time engaged in legal research—the task of
locating precisely the correct precedent, statutes, and regulations to
help you win your case (as a junior lawyer, it clocked in closer to
70%).
Finding the relevant precedent means combing through a rather
large search space—more than ten million cases containing over one
hundred million pages of text. Locating the precedent further entails
situating it in the broader context of the law. Even a precedent seem‐
ingly on point might prove misleading—perhaps the case was over‐