Young lawyers are getting good exposure to AI tools and techniques via hackathons as illustrated by this press release from Premonition AI: “The Cognitive Legal Challenge is a critical element of the Global Legal Hackathon, that took place this past weekend Feb. 23 to 25 in 40+ cities in 6 continents with a projected attendance of over 10,000. Via the Cognitive Legal Challenge, lawyers crowd-sourced the creation of new legal AI applications capable of reasoning through use of IBM’s Watson Knowledge Studio and Premonition AI, the world’s largest litigation database.”
From Smithsonian, this is an interesting discussion of the possibility of bias in AI when predicting crime.
- From David Fisher, founder of Integra Ledger, and co-founder of the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium via Artificial Lawyer, this is one of the clearest explanations of Blockchain I have seen, especially regarding contracts.
Speaking of contracts, this press release from Thomson Reuters represents quite an endorsement of eBrevia. “Thomson Reuters has teamed up with eBrevia, a leading machine-learning contract analytics platform, to help enterprises tackle large and complex contract remediation projects involving commercial contracts.”
There has certainly been a lot of discussion lately about the impact of the GDPR on AI, but not much about AI and HIPAA. This is a good discussion of that topic from Davis Wright’s Rebecca L. Williams. (This is part one of two.)
- The World Legal AI Summit in Barcelona this June should be informative — or a boondoggle. Make of it what you will.
Just for fun, Apple spared no expense producing this new ad (or is it a music video?) promoting the HomePod. (Directed by Spike Jones, starring English performer FKA twigs, music by Anderson .Paak.)