When mediate.com recently created this homepage for RPS Coach, it seemed like a good time to reflect on my amazing journey with this bot – and others’ too. I invited people to submit testimonials describing their experiences using RPS Coach, which are posted on the website. Their responses prompted me to think about the last … Continue reading Turns Out That RPS Coach Really Is Pretty Cool
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a regular part of professional practice. Practitioners can use AI to prepare, organize information, brainstorm questions, draft communications, and think through difficult situations. The value of AI depends substantially on how people use it. Consider the difference between using AI in centaur mode and zombie mode. An AI centaur system … Continue reading Don’t Be a Zombie: Develop Your Own AI Centaur System
You may have missed some of our recent posts if you read them only when you get an email announcing our latest pieces. We had a technical problem that prevented the following pieces from being distributed. So if you missed those posts, here’s a chance to catch up. New Resources for Law Students and Disputants … Continue reading Catch Up with Indisputably
The RPS Coach homepage not only describes the AI tool, the values embedded in it, and the topics it covers. It also includes a publications section with practical guides and tools that people may freely use, distribute, and post on their own websites. I recently added several new resources that may be useful in legal … Continue reading New Resources for Law Students and Disputants
Are you putting the finishing touches on your syllabi for the fall? If you’re teaching mediation, interviewing, counseling, and negotiation, an ADR survey course, or a related subject, you might consider including a fun new teaching resource in your course. What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach is a plausible story that students can … Continue reading Teaching Mediation This Fall? Consider Starting with a Story
Some faculty are wary of using artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarship and teaching. Some are reluctant to use it because they worry that it may undermine thinking, writing, and teaching. Others worry about using AI in ways that effectively delegate too much intellectual work to the technology. There is another possibility. You can use AI … Continue reading How You Can Take Advantage of AI in Your Scholarship and Teaching
I want to let you know about a short story, What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach. I bet you would enjoy spending an hour to read it. What Happened? tells the story of a promising business relationship that gradually unravels into a serious commercial dispute. As the implementation of a software system goes … Continue reading A Short Story about Mediation, Professional Judgment, and AI
I’d love your help. Mediate.com created a terrific new webpage for RPS Coach, with information about its core values, suggestions for getting the best results, descriptions of the topics it covers, and links to the publications incorporated into the tool. Take a look at the homepage. Now I’d like to add a Testimonials page. Many … Continue reading Have You Used RPS Coach? I’d Love Your Testimonials and Feedback – by Friday, June 26
Many dispute resolution practitioners would answer that question with a simple “no.” Until recently, I would have answered the question the same way. When I thought about online dispute resolution (ODR), I thought about specialized online platforms like eBay. ODR seemed like a distinct corner of the dispute resolution field that was completely disconnected from … Continue reading Do You Know That You Use ODR?
If you want to learn how you can benefit from RPS Coach, check out the new Mediate.com webpage. RPS Coach is a free AI tool offered as a public service. It is designed to help mediators, attorneys, parties, educators, students, trainees, and ADR program administrators prepare for and participate in negotiation and mediation. It reflects … Continue reading Mediate.com Hosts RPS Coach
