I Became a Law School Genius

Chapter 72

Episode 72

"Ah, you've arrived."

Among the executives gathered in the conference room, a cheerful-looking man waved his hand at me.

Was it Jo Young-cheol? He was the one I had contacted beforehand, asking him to convene this executive meeting.

The other executives were glancing in my direction with expressions of doubt.

Since it was an IT startup, the average age was relatively young.

"That person is..."

"Hmm..."

They had also been informed that they were being called together at my request.

The reactions they showed to me, who had received all the shares that Yu Seong Group's VC had possessed, were varied.

They were generally not very welcoming.

Even the executives who were classified as pro-Yu Seong seemed more concerned than anything, wondering what an outsider, even if he was the youngest son of the group's owner, thought he knew that made him want to get involved.

Needless to say, the center of that kind of atmosphere was CEO Seo Jong-won.

Jo Young-cheol, who had readily agreed to my request, was the exception.

In short.

This place was practically the heart of enemy territory.

"Hello, everyone."

But there was no need to feel intimidated.

"I'm Park Yoo-seung. I've received 'all' of the shares of your company that were owned by Yu Seong VC."

The person with the most voting rights in this room was none other than me. Rather, they were the ones who should be watching my every move.

Of course, if the rest of them all joined forces and revolted, nothing would work out, so I was planning on following procedures that everyone could agree on.

"The reason I've asked to meet with you today is because I have a proposal regarding the direction of your company's business."

I displayed the presentation materials that I had prepared on the projector in the conference room.

Graphs and numbers that starkly revealed the company's situation, such as operating profits and capital funds, were neatly organized.

"...The data is quite plausible."@@@@

"For something made by an outsider... well, he is the son of the owner family, after all."

I could hear the executives whispering.

"I'll get straight to the point."

I blurted out to them.

"This company. If it continues like this, it's going to fail."

My statement, which was like a direct punch to the solar plexus, sparked a backlash.

"Wh, what did you say?"

Especially from CEO Seo Jong-won.

"What exactly are you talking about?"

"Your company's core service is a character chatbot that utilizes AI."

I started with a story that everyone in this room would know.

"It's a system that allows users to experience a sense of familiarity, emotional connection, and creative story generation by conversing with an AI that feels like a person, and requires paid subscriptions for long-term use."

"That's correct. We're trying to preemptively take over the market before competitors even appear..."

"Why haven't they appeared? Competitors."

I cut off Seo Jong-won's words.

"It's simple. Because it doesn't make money."

"...!"

In reality, Writing's idea wasn't exactly unrealistic.

Conversing with AI was quite a hot topic.

A few years ago, a chatbot service that simply repeated learned conversation patterns, with a famous yellow chick icon, gained national popularity.

A few years after the time setting of "In the Law School."

In other words, in the timeline where I used to live, platforms that achieved commercial success with a business model similar to what Writing had designed had actually started to appear.

However, that was only a story from a few years later.

After much more superior and higher-performance language processing models were released.

"Your company's AI chatbot does not yet provide a sufficiently natural conversational experience."

Awkward English-translated phrases were mixed in, or it would forget the content of the conversation from just a few words ago and give strange answers.

The awkward translation was because they were using a model that operated in English because they couldn't create a Korean model, and the fact that it couldn't remember the conversation was simply a limitation of the early AI's performance.

In short, they had acknowledged the problematic situation that I had exposed, but that didn't mean that the path I was suggesting was necessarily the right answer.

"Please provide evidence."

Riding that wave, Seo Jong-won, who had regained his confidence, demanded from me.

"Evidence that shows that the prospects will improve if we change the business field to legal tech."

* * *

Seo Jong-won thought that this was all a well-crafted game of pretend.

'The youngest son of Yu Seong's owner bought our company's shares?'

What a joke.

There was almost no information known about Park Yoo-seung, the son of the chairman of the Yu Seong Group.

It was a world where you could find all sorts of information on the internet.

If you were a chairman of a group that was within the top ten in the business world, it was natural to be listed in places like biographical encyclopedias or wikis.

In those documents that could be found about Park Geon, it was clearly written, "He has two sons and one daughter."

However, unlike his other two siblings, who had been exposed to the media early on and had been involved in various businesses, the youngest son, Park Yoo-seung, was nowhere to be found.

What that fact indicated was obvious.

'He's a useless young master.'

He must have been incompetent, which was why he hadn't shown any noteworthy achievements that would have revealed his existence.

For that kind of incompetent young master to have gained control of Writing's shares was a tragedy.

It meant that Seo Jong-won's company had been selected as a plaything to be used in a game of pretend by a second-generation chaebol.

'Legal tech, my ass.'

Although it wasn't his specialty, Seo Jong-won, as an IT industry insider and an expert in generative AI, knew very well how absurd the legal tech that Park Yoo-seung was talking about was.

At a glance, AI that handled text and legal services seemed like a perfect match.

If AI could replace some of the work done by legal professionals, whose salaries were absurdly high, that alone would result in tremendous cost savings.

It was an industry that promised enormous profitability.

At the same time, it wasn't a problem that could be approached so simply.

'If it were that easy, everyone would have jumped in already.'

As far as Seo Jong-won knew, the current level of AI couldn't provide any help in solving legal problems.

Of course, if you asked about legal concepts, it could find and spit out the theoretical stories that were written in textbooks.

But that was no different from a simple search engine.

The task of finding the concepts needed to solve a given situation, and putting those logical relationships into a single text without contradiction, was something that was absolutely impossible at the moment.

There was also the problem of hallucinations.

It was a phenomenon where AI generated text that contained strange information that didn't match reality.

There was already a famous picture on the internet of an AI giving a historical question about the early Joseon period and then spouting a bizarre claim that Taejong had used a giant bipedal robot to destroy the barbarians.

It was fine if those errors occurred in the fields of history or general knowledge.

It was just a minor happening that you could laugh about for a moment.

But what if AI were to spew out such errors in legal problems, where each one had a tremendous impact on a person's life?

It would be one thing if it was a problem that anyone could tell was nonsense, like "Armored Taejong," but what if it subtly produced false information in the legal field, where the average person didn't even have the knowledge to distinguish the truth?

That was why, from the moment Park Yoo-seung brought up the topic of legal tech, Seo Jong-won could only treat it as a delusion that a foolish outsider had come up with.

From the start, he himself probably wasn't that serious about it.

At best, it was just a brief amusement.

A plausible toy to play with while he was lost in the illusion of 'doing something.'

But to Seo Jong-won, Writing was a company that was his everything.

'I have to protect it.'

He could still stop it.

Even if the size of the shares that Park Yoo-seung had was large, if he clearly revealed how absurd his thoughts were in this place, he would be able to avoid a situation where the other executives would agree with him.

That was why Seo Jong-won had demanded it from Park Yoo-seung.

Show the evidence.

Show the evidence that it was possible to create something that could be called legal tech in this company.

Of course, there was no way that something like that existed. That was the common sense of the industry.

Unless some genius programmer who had transcended common sense, like someone who might appear in a comic or creative work, was attached to it, it was an absolutely impossible story.

That was why.

"Hi."

When the small woman who had been hiding behind Park Yoo-seung raised her laptop, Seo Jong-won was speechless.

"...Wh, wh, what?"