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What Can Machine Learning Do? Workforce Implications
January 28, 2018
Digital computers have transformed work in almost every sector of the economy over the past several decades (1). We are now at the beginning of an even larger and more rapid transformation due to recent advances in machine learning (ML), which is capable of accelerating the pace of automation itself. However, although it is clear that ML is a “general purpose technology,” like the steam engine and electricity, which spawns a plethora of additional innovations and capabilities (2), there is no widely...
January 28, 2018
Digital computers have transformed work in almost every sector of the economy over the past several decades (1). We are now at the beginning of an even larger and more rapid transformation due to recent advances in machine learning (ML), which is capable of accelerating the pace of automation itself. However, although it is clear that ML is a “general purpose technology,” like the steam engine and electricity, which spawns a plethora of additional innovations and capabilities (2), there is no widely...
Lawyer-Bots Are Shaking Up Jobs
January 27, 2018
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field. As of 2016, there were over 1,300,000 licensed lawyers and 200,000 paralegals in the U.S. Consultancy group McKinsey estimates that 22 percent of a lawyer’s job and 35 percent of a law clerk’s job can be automated, which means that while humanity won’t...
January 27, 2018
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field. As of 2016, there were over 1,300,000 licensed lawyers and 200,000 paralegals in the U.S. Consultancy group McKinsey estimates that 22 percent of a lawyer’s job and 35 percent of a law clerk’s job can be automated, which means that while humanity won’t...
Lawyers’ Stress is Increasing
January 22, 2018
From Progressive Law Practice: Attorneys are more stressed out at work than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Legal. Of the lawyers interviewed, 42% cited reduced stress levels as the one aspect of their job they would like to change. That's up 11 percentage points from the last time the survey was conducted in 2008. Further, 22% of those surveyed called for fewer hours at work and more personal time as the lone aspect they would change, down 8 percentage...
January 22, 2018
From Progressive Law Practice: Attorneys are more stressed out at work than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Legal. Of the lawyers interviewed, 42% cited reduced stress levels as the one aspect of their job they would like to change. That's up 11 percentage points from the last time the survey was conducted in 2008. Further, 22% of those surveyed called for fewer hours at work and more personal time as the lone aspect they would change, down 8 percentage...
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Manipulate Our Emotions
January 20, 2018
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these...
January 20, 2018
The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these...
Introducing NIMA: Neural Image Assessment
January 20, 2018
Quantification of image quality and aesthetics has been a long-standing problem in image processing and computer vision....
January 20, 2018
Quantification of image quality and aesthetics has been a long-standing problem in image processing and computer vision....
Playing with the Data: What Legal Scholars Should Learn About Machine Learning
January 19, 2018
Legal scholars have begun to focus intently on machine learning — the name for a large family of techniques used for sophisticated new forms of data analysis that are becoming key tools of prediction and decision-making. We think this burgeoning scholarship has tended to treat machine learning too much as a monolith and an abstraction, largely ignoring some of its most consequential stages. As a result, many potential harms and benefits of automated decision-making have not yet been articulated,...
January 19, 2018
Legal scholars have begun to focus intently on machine learning — the name for a large family of techniques used for sophisticated new forms of data analysis that are becoming key tools of prediction and decision-making. We think this burgeoning scholarship has tended to treat machine learning too much as a monolith and an abstraction, largely ignoring some of its most consequential stages. As a result, many potential harms and benefits of automated decision-making have not yet been articulated,...
Crowdsourcing Predictions of Supreme Court Decisions
January 17, 2018
Daniel Martin Katz (Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law; Stanford CodeX - The Center for Legal Informatics), Michael...
January 17, 2018
Daniel Martin Katz (Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law; Stanford CodeX - The Center for Legal Informatics), Michael...
Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions
January 15, 2018
Scholars have increasingly investigated “crowdsourcing” as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven...
January 15, 2018
Scholars have increasingly investigated “crowdsourcing” as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven...
CodeX is Connecting the Artificial Intelligence and Legal Communities
January 14, 2018
Best described as an incubator of ideas, CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics, is a joint venture between Stanford Law School and Stanford Computer Science department. “We are an inter-disciplinary research centre,” says executive director Roland Vogl (pictured). “Our mission is to bring information technology to the legal system to make it more efficient and to empower every stakeholder. We understand there’s a lot of interest in helping lawyers do their work more efficiently.” Started...
January 14, 2018
Best described as an incubator of ideas, CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics, is a joint venture between Stanford Law School and Stanford Computer Science department. “We are an inter-disciplinary research centre,” says executive director Roland Vogl (pictured). “Our mission is to bring information technology to the legal system to make it more efficient and to empower every stakeholder. We understand there’s a lot of interest in helping lawyers do their work more efficiently.” Started...
Lexis Advance Now Integrates Attorney Analytics from Lex Machina
January 13, 2018
When LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the the plan was to integrate Lex Machina’s analytics into various LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Last January, it took the first step in that direction when it integrated judge analytics into Lexis Advance, and later in the year it added integration for law firm analytics. Yesterday LexisNexis rolled out the third such integration, attorney analytics....
January 13, 2018
When LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the the plan was to integrate Lex Machina’s analytics into various LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Last January, it took the first step in that direction when it integrated judge analytics into Lexis Advance, and later in the year it added integration for law firm analytics. Yesterday LexisNexis rolled out the third such integration, attorney analytics....
