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Can AI Replace Lawyers? Vanderbilt Law Event to Address Legal Machines
April 11, 2016
The April 13 and 14 event will feature experts in AI and law as well as ROSS, the world’s ‘first artificially intelligent attorney.’ When people discuss artificial intelligence (AI) replacing jobs, rarely are they thinking about lawyers. Nevertheless in recent years, AI has factored into the legal profession, leaving those in-the-know to wonder: Will AI be a top-resource or replacement. Attempting to answer this question is “Watson, Esq. Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine?,” an April...
April 11, 2016
The April 13 and 14 event will feature experts in AI and law as well as ROSS, the world’s ‘first artificially intelligent attorney.’ When people discuss artificial intelligence (AI) replacing jobs, rarely are they thinking about lawyers. Nevertheless in recent years, AI has factored into the legal profession, leaving those in-the-know to wonder: Will AI be a top-resource or replacement. Attempting to answer this question is “Watson, Esq. Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine?,” an April...
Texas PACER-like System Launching This Year
April 10, 2016
It's really happening: Texas is going to get its own version of PACER, destined to debut for judges June 1 and for lawyers in December. The federal courts' beloved Public Access to Court Electronic Records system allows lawyers, judges and the public to go online to access court cases nationwide. Ever since the Texas Supreme Court began pondering statewide electronic filing in Texas, it envisioned something like PACER for the state. Enter the Registered Access to Court Electronic Records (RACER)...
April 10, 2016
It's really happening: Texas is going to get its own version of PACER, destined to debut for judges June 1 and for lawyers in December. The federal courts' beloved Public Access to Court Electronic Records system allows lawyers, judges and the public to go online to access court cases nationwide. Ever since the Texas Supreme Court began pondering statewide electronic filing in Texas, it envisioned something like PACER for the state. Enter the Registered Access to Court Electronic Records (RACER)...
Zuckerberg Education Ventures backs learning assistant camera app Volley
April 10, 2016
“This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s app lets students point their...
April 10, 2016
“This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s app lets students point their...
AI & The Future of Civilization
April 9, 2016
Some tough questions. One of them is about the future of the human condition. That's a big question. I've spent some part of my life figuring out how to make machines automate stuff. It's pretty obvious that we can automate many of the things that we humans have been proud of for a long time. What's the future of the human condition in that situation? More particularly, I see technology as taking human goals and making them able to be automatically executed by machines. The human goals that we've...
April 9, 2016
Some tough questions. One of them is about the future of the human condition. That's a big question. I've spent some part of my life figuring out how to make machines automate stuff. It's pretty obvious that we can automate many of the things that we humans have been proud of for a long time. What's the future of the human condition in that situation? More particularly, I see technology as taking human goals and making them able to be automatically executed by machines. The human goals that we've...
Is This the Proof of Concept for Artificial Intelligence in Law?
April 8, 2016
The jury is still out on the role to be played by artificial intelligence in law. As a recent New York Times article observed about IBM’s attempts to commercialize its Watson AI computer, “[C]ommercializing new technology, however promising, typically comes in short steps rather than giant leaps.” That said, there was a notable leap this week when Deloitte and Kira Systems announced an alliance “to bring the power of machine learning to the workplace, an innovation that could help free...
April 8, 2016
The jury is still out on the role to be played by artificial intelligence in law. As a recent New York Times article observed about IBM’s attempts to commercialize its Watson AI computer, “[C]ommercializing new technology, however promising, typically comes in short steps rather than giant leaps.” That said, there was a notable leap this week when Deloitte and Kira Systems announced an alliance “to bring the power of machine learning to the workplace, an innovation that could help free...
Carrie Fisher puts her ‘droid’ expertise to work for IBM Watson
April 2, 2016
Carrie Fisher may have made a name for herself battling the Empire with the likes of R2D2 and C3PO in Star Wars, but in her latest gig she’s putting her droid expertise to use in a decidedly more docile manner. As part of an IBM marketing campaign — and a larger unrelated effort — to rebrand artificial intelligence, IBM cast Fischer as a therapist in a “Coping with Humans” support group. * * * With $1 billion set aside to establish a business unit for IBM Watson in January 2014,...
April 2, 2016
Carrie Fisher may have made a name for herself battling the Empire with the likes of R2D2 and C3PO in Star Wars, but in her latest gig she’s putting her droid expertise to use in a decidedly more docile manner. As part of an IBM marketing campaign — and a larger unrelated effort — to rebrand artificial intelligence, IBM cast Fischer as a therapist in a “Coping with Humans” support group. * * * With $1 billion set aside to establish a business unit for IBM Watson in January 2014,...
Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems
April 2, 2016
From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors. Today our systems fall short of these visions, however, because this range of behaviors is too large for designers or programmers to capture manually. In this paper, we instead demonstrate it is possible to mine a broad knowledge base of human behavior by analyzing more...
April 2, 2016
From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors. Today our systems fall short of these visions, however, because this range of behaviors is too large for designers or programmers to capture manually. In this paper, we instead demonstrate it is possible to mine a broad knowledge base of human behavior by analyzing more...
Susskind: As Legal Work Decomposes Will Law Firms ‘Break Rank?’
March 31, 2016
In this video op-ed Richard Susskind, co-author of “The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts,” lays out the challenges facing law firms today, and what he believes will be the difference between success and struggle. In the upcoming second part of our video series, Susskind will respond to questions about the ideas he presents in his book, which was co-written with his son, Daniel Susskind, a lecturer in economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Hat...
March 31, 2016
In this video op-ed Richard Susskind, co-author of “The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts,” lays out the challenges facing law firms today, and what he believes will be the difference between success and struggle. In the upcoming second part of our video series, Susskind will respond to questions about the ideas he presents in his book, which was co-written with his son, Daniel Susskind, a lecturer in economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Hat...
Reflections on ABA TECHSHOW 2016 – Picture It Settled App In Good Company
March 29, 2016
On Saturday morning, I presented a session on recommended mobile apps along with Dallas attorney Tom Mighell (the author...
March 29, 2016
On Saturday morning, I presented a session on recommended mobile apps along with Dallas attorney Tom Mighell (the author...
Verizon Starts Testing 5G Wireless in the Field
March 26, 2016
At last, 5G cellular data is leaving the lab. Verizon and Samsung have started testing the multi-gigabit wireless access in "real-world" conditions around Verizon's HQ, including indoors and in moving vehicles. The experience isn't the same as what you'd get on a phone -- this involves specialized equipment just a short hop away from a base station -- but the early results are promising. There's enough bandwidth to comfortably stream 4K video, including VR clips that require 17 simultaneous feeds....
March 26, 2016
At last, 5G cellular data is leaving the lab. Verizon and Samsung have started testing the multi-gigabit wireless access in "real-world" conditions around Verizon's HQ, including indoors and in moving vehicles. The experience isn't the same as what you'd get on a phone -- this involves specialized equipment just a short hop away from a base station -- but the early results are promising. There's enough bandwidth to comfortably stream 4K video, including VR clips that require 17 simultaneous feeds....
