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Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill With DeepMind-Powered AI
July 22, 2016
Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way. The internet giant is using technology from the DeepMind artificial intelligence subsidiary for big savings on the power consumed by its data centers, according to DeepMind Co-Founder Demis Hassabis. In recent months, the Alphabet Inc. unit put a DeepMind AI system in control of parts of its data centers to reduce power consumption by manipulating computer servers and related equipment like cooling systems. It uses...
July 22, 2016
Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way. The internet giant is using technology from the DeepMind artificial intelligence subsidiary for big savings on the power consumed by its data centers, according to DeepMind Co-Founder Demis Hassabis. In recent months, the Alphabet Inc. unit put a DeepMind AI system in control of parts of its data centers to reduce power consumption by manipulating computer servers and related equipment like cooling systems. It uses...
Courts Approve Terms of Service-Based Arbitration Clauses for Uber and Groupon
July 21, 2016
Online terms, and in particular arbitration clauses, have been subject to attack by plaintiffs’ lawyers. News reports have also raised the specter of over-the-top online terms that no one but the lawyers read. However, with the exception of some aberrational decisions, for the most part courts have enforced arbitration clauses, including class action waivers, in properly formed clickthrough agreements. Cullinane v. Uber Techs.: This is a lawsuit over hidden fees or overcharges for rides to and from...
July 21, 2016
Online terms, and in particular arbitration clauses, have been subject to attack by plaintiffs’ lawyers. News reports have also raised the specter of over-the-top online terms that no one but the lawyers read. However, with the exception of some aberrational decisions, for the most part courts have enforced arbitration clauses, including class action waivers, in properly formed clickthrough agreements. Cullinane v. Uber Techs.: This is a lawsuit over hidden fees or overcharges for rides to and from...
Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
July 17, 2016
For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s technology investors and entrepreneurs obsessed over social media and mobile apps that helped people do things like find new friends, fetch a ride home or crowdsource a review of a product or a movie. Now Silicon Valley has found its next shiny new thing. And it does not have a “Like” button. The new era in Silicon Valley centers on artificial intelligence and robots, a transformation that many believe will have a payoff on the scale of the personal...
July 17, 2016
For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s technology investors and entrepreneurs obsessed over social media and mobile apps that helped people do things like find new friends, fetch a ride home or crowdsource a review of a product or a movie. Now Silicon Valley has found its next shiny new thing. And it does not have a “Like” button. The new era in Silicon Valley centers on artificial intelligence and robots, a transformation that many believe will have a payoff on the scale of the personal...
Blawg 100 Amici
July 16, 2016
We’re working on our 10th annual list of the 100 best legal blogs, and we’d like your advice on which blogs you think we should include. Use the form below to tell us about a blog—not your own—that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about. (Please note that law blogs in the Blawg 100 Hall of Fame are not eligible for this year’s list.) If there is more than one blog you want to support, feel free to send us additional amici through the form. We may include some of the best...
July 16, 2016
We’re working on our 10th annual list of the 100 best legal blogs, and we’d like your advice on which blogs you think we should include. Use the form below to tell us about a blog—not your own—that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about. (Please note that law blogs in the Blawg 100 Hall of Fame are not eligible for this year’s list.) If there is more than one blog you want to support, feel free to send us additional amici through the form. We may include some of the best...
Half of GC Expect AI Impact in 5 Years
July 16, 2016
Research by UK-based legal directory The Legal 500 has found that over 50% of General Counsel (GC) believe AI will have some impact on their inhouse teams within five years. However, around 7% still believed AI would have no impact at all, now or in the future. That said, if one factors in those who were unsure, then around 80% of GC believe there will be some impact from the use of AI. Fundamentally, using applied AI for cognition, extraction and then transforming the data into meaningful...
July 16, 2016
Research by UK-based legal directory The Legal 500 has found that over 50% of General Counsel (GC) believe AI will have some impact on their inhouse teams within five years. However, around 7% still believed AI would have no impact at all, now or in the future. That said, if one factors in those who were unsure, then around 80% of GC believe there will be some impact from the use of AI. Fundamentally, using applied AI for cognition, extraction and then transforming the data into meaningful...
The News of Attorneys’ Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
July 15, 2016
Some warn that the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney is imminent, but replacing lawyers is not on the horizon There has been a great deal of coverage about the possibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) replacing the legal profession, stimulated in part by a recent conference at Vanderbilt Law School titled “Watson, Esq.: Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine?” Some warn that the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney is imminent and that it is only a matter of time...
July 15, 2016
Some warn that the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney is imminent, but replacing lawyers is not on the horizon There has been a great deal of coverage about the possibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) replacing the legal profession, stimulated in part by a recent conference at Vanderbilt Law School titled “Watson, Esq.: Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine?” Some warn that the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney is imminent and that it is only a matter of time...
UT Grad Behind Pokémon GO Craze Sweeping Nation
July 14, 2016
One of the University of Texas' slogans is "What starts here changes the world." That phrase has certainly come into context...
July 14, 2016
One of the University of Texas' slogans is "What starts here changes the world." That phrase has certainly come into context...
Startup Launches Artificial Intelligence Tool to Diagram Corporate Structures
July 10, 2016
A new legal technology company called Deftr is today launching a tool powered by artificial intelligence that helps professionals diagram intricate corporate structures. The tool reads text in real time, as it is being typed, then turns that text into a shareable, interactive graphic illustrating a corporate structure or transaction. In a press release being issued today, Deftr’s co-founder and CEO Matthew Osman explained: Building charts to represent corporate structures or transactions essentially...
July 10, 2016
A new legal technology company called Deftr is today launching a tool powered by artificial intelligence that helps professionals diagram intricate corporate structures. The tool reads text in real time, as it is being typed, then turns that text into a shareable, interactive graphic illustrating a corporate structure or transaction. In a press release being issued today, Deftr’s co-founder and CEO Matthew Osman explained: Building charts to represent corporate structures or transactions essentially...
Two New Legal Technology Blogs Make Their Debuts
July 10, 2016
The month of May saw the debut of two legal technology blogs, one covering legal apps and another for Mac-using lawyers. Apps in Law. This new blog highlights the best iOS apps for lawyers in what it describes as “mercifully short, finely-detailed video reviews.” The man behind the reviews is Brett Burney, the legal technology and e-discovery consultant who is principal of Burney Consultants and who, among his many accomplishments, was chair of the 2015 ABA Techshow. TechnoLAWgist. Launched...
July 10, 2016
The month of May saw the debut of two legal technology blogs, one covering legal apps and another for Mac-using lawyers. Apps in Law. This new blog highlights the best iOS apps for lawyers in what it describes as “mercifully short, finely-detailed video reviews.” The man behind the reviews is Brett Burney, the legal technology and e-discovery consultant who is principal of Burney Consultants and who, among his many accomplishments, was chair of the 2015 ABA Techshow. TechnoLAWgist. Launched...
China Makes New Supercomputing Gains
June 26, 2016
For first time, China places more machines than the U.S. on Top500 list China has bolstered its claim to leadership in the highest reaches of computing with a world-beating system that was built with homegrown processor chips. A massive machine in the city of Wuxi grabbed the top spot in a twice-yearly ranking of the 500 fastest scientific computers, offering more than twice the performance of another Chinese system that has led the list for three years. The supercomputer’s test performance...
June 26, 2016
For first time, China places more machines than the U.S. on Top500 list China has bolstered its claim to leadership in the highest reaches of computing with a world-beating system that was built with homegrown processor chips. A massive machine in the city of Wuxi grabbed the top spot in a twice-yearly ranking of the 500 fastest scientific computers, offering more than twice the performance of another Chinese system that has led the list for three years. The supercomputer’s test performance...
