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‘Moneyball’ Legal Analytics Helps Lawyers Assess Judges
July 26, 2017
Intellectual property lawyer Huong Nguyen walked into a federal courtroom a few years ago to defend a case for a maker of generic...
July 26, 2017
Intellectual property lawyer Huong Nguyen walked into a federal courtroom a few years ago to defend a case for a maker of generic...
Chatbots Who Negotiate
July 24, 2017
Facebook has apparently been developing chat bots that negotiate. This article in The Atlantic focuses on the bots creation of their own language. And here’s the Facebook report on training the bots in negotiations. There’s a struggle going on between negotiating like “humans” (more prone to accepting non-Pareto optimal solutions for the sake of appearing to compromise) and the more aggressive style the bots adopted for the sake of reaching optimal solutions: “A negative consequence...
July 24, 2017
Facebook has apparently been developing chat bots that negotiate. This article in The Atlantic focuses on the bots creation of their own language. And here’s the Facebook report on training the bots in negotiations. There’s a struggle going on between negotiating like “humans” (more prone to accepting non-Pareto optimal solutions for the sake of appearing to compromise) and the more aggressive style the bots adopted for the sake of reaching optimal solutions: “A negative consequence...
China got a wake-up call on AI when a Western machine beat the best Asian players at Go
July 23, 2017
China intends to become the world’s artificial intelligence leader in 2030, according to the manifesto it just released describing plans to create an industry of $150 billion and an environment that has AI “everywhere.” According to The New York Times (paywall), these ambitions are propelled in no small part by a machine’s dominance over Asian champions in the ancient strategy game called Go. Since last year, AlphaGo, developed by the Google-owned artificial-intelligence firm DeepMind,...
July 23, 2017
China intends to become the world’s artificial intelligence leader in 2030, according to the manifesto it just released describing plans to create an industry of $150 billion and an environment that has AI “everywhere.” According to The New York Times (paywall), these ambitions are propelled in no small part by a machine’s dominance over Asian champions in the ancient strategy game called Go. Since last year, AlphaGo, developed by the Google-owned artificial-intelligence firm DeepMind,...
Legal Theory Lexicon: The Coase Theorem
July 22, 2017
But what if there are positive transaction costs? Of course, in the real world, there will almost always be positive transaction...
July 22, 2017
But what if there are positive transaction costs? Of course, in the real world, there will almost always be positive transaction...
Artificial Intelligence in Real Workplaces
July 15, 2017
Beyond the hype and the technical demonstrations, many non-tech companies are already using artificial intelligence to transform their businesses. These FT stories highlight lesser-known case studies of real-world applications of AI around the world
July 15, 2017
Beyond the hype and the technical demonstrations, many non-tech companies are already using artificial intelligence to transform their businesses. These FT stories highlight lesser-known case studies of real-world applications of AI around the world
Emerging Trends And Legal Analytics For Employment Litigation
July 11, 2017
What do recent political and economic changes mean for the employment litigation landscape? How can knowledge management...
July 11, 2017
What do recent political and economic changes mean for the employment litigation landscape? How can knowledge management...
New ‘Lexis Answers’ Brings AI to Lexis Advance
July 9, 2017
LexisNexis is today announcing the launch of Lexis Answers, a feature that brings artificial intelligence to the Lexis Advance legal research platform. With Lexis Answers, a researcher can ask a natural-language question and get back the single-best answer in the form of what Lexis is calling a Lexis Answer Card. LexisNexis says that Lexis Answers uses powerful machine learning, cognitive computing and advanced natural language processing technologies to deliver the single best and most authoritative...
July 9, 2017
LexisNexis is today announcing the launch of Lexis Answers, a feature that brings artificial intelligence to the Lexis Advance legal research platform. With Lexis Answers, a researcher can ask a natural-language question and get back the single-best answer in the form of what Lexis is calling a Lexis Answer Card. LexisNexis says that Lexis Answers uses powerful machine learning, cognitive computing and advanced natural language processing technologies to deliver the single best and most authoritative...
TurboPatent Introduces Two AI-Powered Tools for Patent Lawyers
July 8, 2017
TurboPatent, a company that develops applications to automate and streamline the patent protection process, is today introducing two artificial intelligence products for patent lawyers, RoboReview, a cloud-based product that analyzes draft patent applications, and RapidResponse, a product that assists lawyers in writing responses to office actions. These follow the company’s launch earlier this year of SmartShell, an AI-powered tool that helps prepare responses to office actions, which I wrote...
July 8, 2017
TurboPatent, a company that develops applications to automate and streamline the patent protection process, is today introducing two artificial intelligence products for patent lawyers, RoboReview, a cloud-based product that analyzes draft patent applications, and RapidResponse, a product that assists lawyers in writing responses to office actions. These follow the company’s launch earlier this year of SmartShell, an AI-powered tool that helps prepare responses to office actions, which I wrote...
The Best And Worst States For Litigation Finance
July 5, 2017
The discrepancy in attractiveness of litigation finance between states generally stems from judicial decisions that have been handed down in that state, as well as state-level legislative differences. Many people new to the industry do not realize that there are important differences in litigation finance across states. Managing those differences can be challenging. The reality is that managing a portfolio of claims is tough by itself, but once you throw in differences between states for a given...
July 5, 2017
The discrepancy in attractiveness of litigation finance between states generally stems from judicial decisions that have been handed down in that state, as well as state-level legislative differences. Many people new to the industry do not realize that there are important differences in litigation finance across states. Managing those differences can be challenging. The reality is that managing a portfolio of claims is tough by itself, but once you throw in differences between states for a given...
Big Pharma Turns to AI to Speed Drug Discovery
July 4, 2017
The aim is to harness modern supercomputers and machine learning systems to predict how molecules will behave and how likely they are to make a useful drug, thereby saving time and money on unnecessary tests. AI systems already play a central role in other high-tech areas such as the development of driverless cars and facial recognition software.
July 4, 2017
The aim is to harness modern supercomputers and machine learning systems to predict how molecules will behave and how likely they are to make a useful drug, thereby saving time and money on unnecessary tests. AI systems already play a central role in other high-tech areas such as the development of driverless cars and facial recognition software.
