Teaching Python Episode 151: AI in Practice: Learning from Law & Beyond with Pritesh Patel
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Sep 29, 2025 Pritesh Patel, a seasoned computer scientist with over 20 years at major companies like Walmart and GE, brings his wealth of AI expertise to the conversation. He shares innovative ways he's applied AI, from automating a family frozen yogurt shop to revolutionizing legal workflows. Topics include engaging nontechnical users in AI with playful prompts, the importance of adopting AI intentionally, and how curiosity drives the acceptance of new technologies. Pritesh also discusses accessible AI tools and the value of focusing on outcomes rather than processes in education and law.
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Automating A Family Frozen Yogurt Shop
- Pritesh automated parts of his parents' frozen yogurt shop to save hours each week and generate profit-and-loss reports.
- He's building AI to detect expense drift and suggest monthly course corrections to improve annual profit.
From Big Corporations To A Law Firm
- Pritesh moved from large companies like Walmart to a law firm to build broader, greenfield AI solutions.
- He wanted a culture that shared knowledge and let him apply his experience across whole workflows.
How Language Models Learn Meaning
- Language models learn by predicting blanks in text, mirroring how children learn language through repetition.
- Vector representations capture relationships between words, revealing semantic structure from patterns alone.