I Became a Law School Genius – 72



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 72

“Oh you’re here.”

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

Did you say Jo Young-cheol? He was someone I contacted in advance and asked him to convene an executive meeting.

The other executives were casting their eyes in this direction with expressions of disbelief.

Since it is an IT startup the age group is generally young.

“That person….”

“Hmm….”

They have also been informed that they have been summoned at my request.

The reactions they showed to me who had initially transferred all of the shares held by Yusung Group’s VC were varied.

In general it was not favorable.

Even the executives who were classified as pro-Korean people seemed to be worried about what an outsider would know and intervene in even if he was the youngest son of the group owner.

Needless to say it was CEO Seo Jong-won who stood at the center of such an atmosphere.

Jo Young-cheol who willingly accepted the request was a rather unusual case.

in short.

Now this place was like the middle of enemy territory.

“Nice to meet you everyone.”

But there was no need to be intimidated.

“My name is Park Yu-seung. “I received ‘all’ shares of your company owned by Yuseong VC.”

The person with the most voting rights in this position is none other than me. Rather they need to pay attention to me.

Of course if the rest of us join together to rebel nothing will work so I plan to go through a process that everyone can understand.

“The reason I decided to meet you today is because I have something to suggest regarding the direction of your company’s business.”

I projected the presentation materials I had prepared on the conference room projector.

Graphs and numbers clearly revealing the company’s circumstances such as operating profit and capital were neatly arranged.

“…the data is quite plausible.”

“For something made by an outsider… he must be the son of the owner’s family.”

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I could hear executives whispering.

“I’ll tell you straight.”

I blurted out that to them.

“This company. If we continue like this we will be ruined.”

Immediately a remark erupted that seemed to hit the regime in the stomach.

“What?”

Especially from CEO Seo Jong-won.

“What do you mean by that now?”

“Your core service is a character chatbot using AI.”

I started with a story that everyone here would know.

“It is a system that allows users to experience intimacy emotional connection and creative story creation by talking to an AI that feels like a human being and requires paid payment for long-term use.”

“Yes. “We dominate the market before competitors appear…”

“Why didn’t it appear? Competitors.”

I cut off Seo Jong-won’s words.

“It’s simple. “Because there is no money.”

“…!”

In fact the lighting idea was not particularly unrealistic.

Conversation with artificial intelligence was quite a hot topic.

A few years ago a chatbot service known for its yellow chick icon that simply repeated learned conversation patterns became popular nationwide.

A few years after ‘In the Law School’ is set.

So in the timeline in which I was living platforms that were actually commercially successful with the same business model designed by Lighting began to emerge.

However that is a story that took place several years later.

This is after much better and higher-performance language processing models were released.

“Your AI chatbot does not yet provide a sufficiently natural conversation experience.”

Things like poor English translation mixed up or giving wrong answers because you can’t remember the conversation from just a few words ago.

The awkward translation is due to the inability to create a Korean model so a model that operates in English is used and the inability to remember the conversation content is simply a performance limitation of early AI.

In short it was impossible to provide sufficient immersion to users with the current level of AI.

Rather it is good at generating texts that summarize formal papers or provide information but it is not capable of generating everyday personal conversations.

Because of this Lighting’s service was being ignored in the market being evaluated as ‘not realistic’.

“CFO Cho Young-cheol will explain that part.”

Then Jo Yeong-cheol who was sitting suddenly stood up.

“As you may already know our company’s financial situation is not very good.”

Then I started explaining the materials I had uploaded.

He talked about net profit sales and debt and showed off his dazzling dance moves with his tongue.

“…taking this into consideration it is virtually a situation where large-scale change is being forced.”

By the time Jo Young-cheol reached his conclusion other executives also seemed to have accepted that the problem was serious.

“It’s worse than I thought…”

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“Isn’t this going to be dangerous starting next quarter?”

‘hmm. After all this kind of thing should be left to the experts.’

Actually I don’t know much about the corporate structure.

How much would I be able to do in financial analysis without having studied business administration or run a company?

Even in my past life I was just a worker and not someone who was under someone’s control.

This presentation material that executives were impressed with was not created by me. Of course it is Cho Young-cheol’s work.

‘He’s quite a talented person.’

Youngcheol Jo was an ambitious man.

Although he was an early member recruited by Seo Jong-won he was tired of Seo Jong-won’s complacent perception of reality and unclear vision.

Cho Young-cheol’s true intention was that if possible he wanted to overtake Seo Jong-won seize real power of the company and lead it in a better direction.

It was a part where my interests matched perfectly to the point where it was amazing.

Cho Young-cheol must have thought the same so when I contacted him he seemed delighted and joined my side as if he had just met a lifesaver.

I provide him with the ‘means’ to reform the company as he wants and he takes over the practical process of taking control and reorganizing the organization instead of me who is unfamiliar with management.

It was truly a beautiful division of labor.

“Perhaps you will see through everything from the beginning and buy a stake in our company…”

“That’s a scary sight.”

That’s a misunderstanding. I only took a stab at it because it was the only AI-related company I could work with in the first place.

I had no idea that the situation would be this good.

However there was no need to correct it.

There was nothing bad about it because trust in me increased.

Instead it was declared as if driving a wedge.

“For your company change is not a matter of choice. “It’s a necessity for survival.”

Even though startups are prepared to suffer losses and receive support to expand their business it is difficult for them to produce tangible results only after several years.

Rather you must be able to quickly prove your potential in order for anything to work.

If these results are made public Lighting will no longer be able to attract the necessary investment to run the company and will disintegrate.

I don’t know but since Jo Young-cheol explained it that way it’s probably like that.

In the end it was inevitable that a total review of the business would be required no matter what form it took.

The atmosphere had already turned upside down a long time ago.

Even executives who were reluctant at first to the presumptuous meddlesome kid now had no choice but to sympathize with the problem I brought up.

They sent their gaze demanding measures.

Towards their leader CEO Seo Jong-won.

“Ha but.”

Seo Jong-won protested as if he was struggling.

“But is there any reason why the direction of the ‘change’ must be legal tech?”

It was the same point I made before crossing the threshold of the conference room.

“As I said our company has no experience with Legal Tech. “Legal Tech itself is currently a field that is evaluated to be commercialized until a long time later.”

There was clear validity to his argument as if he was a person in the industry even if he was rotten.

“Is there any need to change if it is a late project that will produce the same results anyway?”

“I am of the same opinion.”

One of the executives also added his words.

“Of course I respect the voting rights of Mr. Park Yoo-seung the largest shareholder… but being able to point out a problem and being able to present an appropriate alternative are two completely different stories.”

In short I am aware of the problematic situation I exposed but does that guarantee that the path I propose is the correct answer?

“Please provide evidence.”

Seo Jong-won who took advantage of the trend and regained his confidence made a request to me.

“The basis is that if we change our business field to Legal Tech our prospects will improve.”

* * *

Seo Jong-won thought that all of this was a well-crafted playing house.

‘Yoo-seong’s youngest son took a stake in our company?’

That’s not even funny.

Little was known about Park Yoo-seung the son of the chairman of Yuseong Group.

This is a world where all kinds of information can be found on the Internet.

If you are the chairman of a group that ranks among the top ten in the business world it is natural for him to be listed in people encyclopedias or wikis.

In Park Geon’s documents that can be found in such places the phrase ‘2 sons and 1 daughter’ is clearly recorded.

Unlike the other two siblings who were exposed to the media from an early age and were involved in various businesses the youngest Park Yoo-seung was nowhere to be found.

It was obvious what that fact indicated.

‘You’re a worthless young master.’

Because he was incompetent it was clear that he did not show any performance that would reveal his existence.

It was a tragedy that a share of the writing was given to such an incompetent master.

It was said that Seo Jong-won’s company was selected as a toy to be used as a play house for the second generation of chaebols.

‘Legal Tech is a mess.’

Although he was not an expert in that field Seo Jong-won an incumbent in the IT industry and an expert in generative AI in particular knew very well how absurd the legal tech talk about Park Yoo-seung was.

At first glance artificial intelligence that handles text and legal services seem like a perfect match.

If we can replace some of the work of legal experts who each have an exorbitantly high price with AI that alone can save enormous costs.

It was an industry that promised enormous profitability.

At the same time it was not a problem that could be approached so simply.

‘If it were that easy I would have jumped in a long time ago.’

As far as Seo Jong-won knows the current level of AI cannot provide any help in resolving legal problems.

So if you ask about a legal concept you can at least find the basic stories written in the textbook and spit them out.

However it was no different from a simple search engine.

Finding the concepts necessary to solve a given situation and expressing their logical relationships in a single text without contradiction was an impossible task at present.

There was also a problem called hallucination.

This is a phenomenon in which AI generates text containing incorrect information that does not match reality.

When I asked AI a historical question about the early Joseon Dynasty a photo showing the bizarre claim that King Taejong exterminated barbarians riding a giant bipedal robot was already famous on the Internet.

However it is okay for such errors to occur in the field of history or liberal arts.

It’s nothing more than a minor incident that can be laughed at for a while.

But what if AI makes such errors in legal matters that have a huge impact on a person’s life?

Like ‘Armored King Taejong’ if it’s an issue that anyone can tell is nonsense what can you do if false information is cleverly produced in a legal area where ordinary people don’t even have the knowledge to distinguish between truth and truth?

Therefore from the time Park Yoo-seung brought up the story of Legal Tech Seo Jong-won had no choice but to dismiss it as a delusion dreamed up by a foolish layman.

I probably wouldn’t be that serious in the first place.

At most a brief entertainment.

A plausible toy to play with under the illusion that you are ‘doing something’.

However for Seo Jong-won writing was his everything.

‘I have to protect it.’

It can still be prevented.

No matter how large the stake in Park Yoo-seung’s hands is if he clearly reveals how absurd his ideas are he will be able to avoid a situation where other executives agree.

That’s why Seo Jong-won made a request to Park Yoo-seung.

Show me the evidence.

Evidence to show that it is possible for this company to create something that can be called legal tech.

Of course that couldn’t have happened. Because that is common sense in the industry.

It was an absolutely impossible story unless a genius programmer who transcended common sense as seen in some cartoon or creative work was attached.

That’s why.

“Hi.”

Seo Jong-won was astonished when the short woman standing behind Park Yoo-seung held up a laptop.

“…Uh huh?”