One of the best things that sometimes happens at professional conferences is when a speaker says something that makes you sit up and pay attention. That happened to me at the British Irish Association of Law Libraries (BIALL) meeting earlier this month when Nick West, Chief Strategy Officer for Mishcon de Reya LLP, paraphrased
After Siri and Alexa Comes Azuma Hikari, The Holographic Personal Assistant
Roommate needed: Must like to watch anime, wake me up with a good morning, let me know if I need an umbrella for work today, text me during the day, turn on the lights as I’m coming home, and tell me good night as I drift off to sleep. I’m looking for someone with blue
Why All the AI Hype in Legal? – A Response to Ron Friedmann
Ron Friedman recently posted the following video to twitter.
My musings on the legal market hype about artificial intelligence (AI). ISO help to understand that hype. pic.twitter.com/p1aymC71xF— ronfriedmann (@ronfriedmann) November 20, 2016
Ron and I have talked about this a lot, going back to my AI posts last December when
I suggested that we
The Robots Lawyers Have Arrived…
This post originally appeared on the HighQ Blog.
Last week, at the HighQ Forum in London, our new robot overlords displayed their mighty powers and declared that all human lawyers should line up and await their turn at the guillotine.
Oh wait… I’m wrong, that didn’t happen.
However, we did get a
Aha! A.H.I!
I wrote a post last week in which I called for a moratorium on the term Artificial Intelligence in relation to the law. Instead I suggested that you should just replace AI with the term Automation because “they’re exactly the same thing, at least as far as the current legal market is concerned.”
Some people
A.I. and Automation… Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to
I am calling for an official moratorium on the term Artificial Intelligence in relation to the law! Everyone please just stop using it. It’s a needlessly charged word that only confuses and clouds the underlying issues whenever it comes up.
From now on any time you feel the need to use the term Artificial Intelligence, replace
"No Response Required"
With all this talk or blogging about AI, Big Data, metrics and analytics, pricing protocols, KM, Six Sigma and Lean and Agile, I wonder if I am working in a manufacturing shop or a law firm. In the world of manufacturing widget A can be compared to widget B, the two widgets can be taken
Stop the AI madness!
The third law of prediction from the late great Arthur C. Clarke, is that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
If Sir Arthur were writing today I think he may have replaced ‘magic’ with ‘artificial intelligence’.
AI has become our modern sorcery. It’s both our savior and our bogey-man. It will most likely
Watson Graduates Law School, Returns to America
We all know this coming of age story. A boy leaves home to study abroad, sows his wild oats, and returns home a grown man, wiser and ready to take on the world. Except this coming of age story has a bit of a twist. The boy is actually a computer. And that computer’s name is
One Ring to Rule Them All? Will IBM's Watson Transform Contract Review and Law Practice?
[Ed. Note: Please welcome guest blogger Noah Waisberg, CEO of Kira Systems, and a good friend of the 3 Geeks. Noah was on an ILTA Panel with me last year, and will participate in the follow up to that panel this year called, Legal Technology Innovation: Bolstering AND Destroying Legal Work.