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SXSW Panel: IBM, Johnson & Johnson CEOs say Tech, Medicine Collaboration Offers Huge Upside
March 19, 2017
Medical students who don't learn at least some computer coding will be at a serious disadvantage in the future. Such is the nature of the close and deepening ties between the health care sector and the technology world. That's according to Ginni Rometty, CEO of International Business Machines Corp. She spoke Monday with Alex Gorsky, CEO of health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson, in a South by Southwest discussion moderated by Clay Johnston, dean of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas...
March 19, 2017
Medical students who don't learn at least some computer coding will be at a serious disadvantage in the future. Such is the nature of the close and deepening ties between the health care sector and the technology world. That's according to Ginni Rometty, CEO of International Business Machines Corp. She spoke Monday with Alex Gorsky, CEO of health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson, in a South by Southwest discussion moderated by Clay Johnston, dean of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas...
The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI
March 18, 2017
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more — all by themselves. Take a tour of the Augmented Age with futurist Maurice Conti and preview a time when robots and humans will work side-by-side to accomplish things neither could do alone.
March 18, 2017
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more — all by themselves. Take a tour of the Augmented Age with futurist Maurice Conti and preview a time when robots and humans will work side-by-side to accomplish things neither could do alone.
Law Firm MinterEllison Launches JV to Develop Legal AI Technology
March 17, 2017
The MinterEllison project in New Zealand is different in that it is specifically looking at building a legal AI application, most other law firms that have invested in or supported new legal tech have had a more general outlook. Also, this JV is focused on creating just one standalone legal AI business and is not seeking to support start-ups in general or seeking to be an incubator or accelerator to other legal tech businesses.
March 17, 2017
The MinterEllison project in New Zealand is different in that it is specifically looking at building a legal AI application, most other law firms that have invested in or supported new legal tech have had a more general outlook. Also, this JV is focused on creating just one standalone legal AI business and is not seeking to support start-ups in general or seeking to be an incubator or accelerator to other legal tech businesses.
Don’t Fear Superintelligent AI
March 11, 2017
New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how we'll teach, not program, them to share our human values. Rather than worry about an unlikely existential threat, he urges us to consider how artificial intelligence will enhance human life.
March 11, 2017
New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how we'll teach, not program, them to share our human values. Rather than worry about an unlikely existential threat, he urges us to consider how artificial intelligence will enhance human life.
This Week In Legal Tech: Rating Lawyers By Their Wins And Losses
March 10, 2017
Lawyers will give you any number of reasons why their win-loss rates in court are not accurate reflections of their legal skills. Yet a growing number of companies are evaluating lawyers by this standard – compiling and analyzing lawyers’ litigation track records to help consumers and businesses make more-informed hiring decisions. The latest to do this is Justice Toolbox, a startup that uses data mined from official state court records to compute and display how many cases a lawyer has won and lost...
March 10, 2017
Lawyers will give you any number of reasons why their win-loss rates in court are not accurate reflections of their legal skills. Yet a growing number of companies are evaluating lawyers by this standard – compiling and analyzing lawyers’ litigation track records to help consumers and businesses make more-informed hiring decisions. The latest to do this is Justice Toolbox, a startup that uses data mined from official state court records to compute and display how many cases a lawyer has won and lost...
A Beginner’s Guide to Legal AI
March 10, 2017
Artificial Intelligence and the law, or legal AI, can sometimes need a little organising as a subject. This succinct White...
March 10, 2017
Artificial Intelligence and the law, or legal AI, can sometimes need a little organising as a subject. This succinct White...
JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers 360,000 Hours
March 9, 2017
At JPMorgan Chase & Co., a learning machine is parsing financial deals that once kept legal teams busy for thousands of hours. The program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the project went online in June, consumed 360,000 hours of work each year by lawyers and loan officers. The software reviews documents in seconds, is less error-prone and never asks for vacation. While the financial industry has long...
March 9, 2017
At JPMorgan Chase & Co., a learning machine is parsing financial deals that once kept legal teams busy for thousands of hours. The program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the project went online in June, consumed 360,000 hours of work each year by lawyers and loan officers. The software reviews documents in seconds, is less error-prone and never asks for vacation. While the financial industry has long...
MD Anderson Drops IBM Watson – A Setback For Artificial Intelligence In Medicine ?
March 8, 2017
Not sure this is actually a “set back for AI in Medicine.” Rather, long story short — it ain’t 2014 anymore … as we discuss in our talk – Machine Learning as a Service : #MLaaS, Open Source and the Future of Legal Analytics – what started with Watson has turned into significant competition among major technology industry players. Throw in a some open source and you have some really strong economic forces which are upending even business models which were sound just three years...
March 8, 2017
Not sure this is actually a “set back for AI in Medicine.” Rather, long story short — it ain’t 2014 anymore … as we discuss in our talk – Machine Learning as a Service : #MLaaS, Open Source and the Future of Legal Analytics – what started with Watson has turned into significant competition among major technology industry players. Throw in a some open source and you have some really strong economic forces which are upending even business models which were sound just three years...
What Solo and Small Firms Should Know About Artificial Intelligence
March 7, 2017
Here’s the good news: robot lawyers are not taking over, despite emerging applications for artificial intelligence (AI)...
March 7, 2017
Here’s the good news: robot lawyers are not taking over, despite emerging applications for artificial intelligence (AI)...
A Crystal Ball for Insurance Risk Managers?
March 6, 2017
Premonition , a Miami-based start up claims to have solved a task most legal technology experts believed to be impossible. Premonition uses Artificial Intelligence to crawl thousands of court websites in real time, downloading the cases and, most importantly, mapping them to insurance industry lines of business. “For the first time ever, an insurer can spot claims coming and take action before they arrive based on actual liability data instead of forecasts,” claims Premonition co-founder, Toby...
March 6, 2017
Premonition , a Miami-based start up claims to have solved a task most legal technology experts believed to be impossible. Premonition uses Artificial Intelligence to crawl thousands of court websites in real time, downloading the cases and, most importantly, mapping them to insurance industry lines of business. “For the first time ever, an insurer can spot claims coming and take action before they arrive based on actual liability data instead of forecasts,” claims Premonition co-founder, Toby...
