I’m sure you’ve all seen the headlines. A recent study has shown that people who identify as night-owls, were 10% more likely to die early or some variation on that. Apparently, we’re all supposed to start being morning people for the sake of longer life, except that’s not exactly what the study proved at all….
The other day, as I was perusing various news sources, I happened upon back to back articles from Psychology Today. Now at first glimpse these articles might not seem related, but I think they are. Let me start by talking about Facebook though. Way back in his Harvard days, Mark Zuckerberg, the legend holds, started…
There are a lot of use cases for this type of automated research tool: “You ask your questions in plain English, as you would a colleague, and ROSS then reads through the entire body of law and returns a cited answer and topical readings from legislation, case law and secondary sources to get you up-to-speed…
Over the weekend, we took a tour of Laura Plantation, about an hour down the Mississippi River from our house. The tour includes a walk through one of the old slave cabins, and the guide talked a bit about not just what a slaves life on a sugar plantation would have been, but also what…
This is an obvious use of AI in law, allowing clients the ability to respond to questions and get legal documents like a will without the much higher expense of a lawyer’s time. This, is the part that jumped out at me though: “Much of the work these bots, and AI technology in general, do…
I’ve been meaning to write this post since I was following along with the ILTA Conference tweets a couple of weeks ago. I was struck by some of the things being shared during the keynotes about AI, specifically about the idea of learning modules that the team from IBM’s Watson project were talking about. My…