Learning Something New: Understanding Long Short Term Memory Networks

LSTMs are explicitly designed to avoid the long-term dependency problem. Remembering information for long periods of time is practically their default behavior, not something they struggle to learn!

Source: Understanding LSTM Networks — colah’s blog

I wonder what would happen if one trained an LSTM network with a couple million court opinions plus code and regulations. Would it be able to answer even a simple legal question?

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