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How artificial intelligence is transforming the legal profession

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So he and his business partner, Dan Roth, decided to create a program that would help lawyers manage electronic documents for litigation. Their idea led them to purchase an e-discovery application. By 2000, Leib and his partner launched their own creation, Discovery Cracker. "We saw a gap in the marketplace," Leib says. Lawyers need tools to keep up with it." Instead of wading through piles of paper, lawyers now deal with terabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of documents. E-discovery, legal research and document review are more sophisticated due to the abundance of data. So while working as chief strategy officer at kCura in Chicago, Leib saw a need again in the market. "For years, lawyers have been stuck with antiquated tools that focus primarily … on Boolean search. Better tools are needed to truly understand data." "What is the future of the industry?


'I will destroy humans': Robot gives a VERY creepy answer in TV interview

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A new human-like Android has confirmed everything sci fi taught us about robots – by purring, 'I will destroy humans' in a TV interview. The robot, Sophia, has cameras behind its eyes – and monitors people's facial expressions, and reacts to seem more human. Didn't Terminator do that, too, come to think of it? Sophia was on show at SXSW this year, exhibited by Hanson Robotics. In an interview with Dr David Hanson, her creator, Hanson asked, 'Do you want to destroy humans?'


Your guide to cognitive computing: An interview with solutions architect, Chris Ackerson - IBM Watson

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Solutions architects are the experts on our team at understanding and implementing Watson technology. They have developed this expertise by providing technical support to our partners through multiple mediums. Through their work, they have a deep understanding and point of view about the Watson APIs, but also the cognitive landscape at large. I interviewed solutions architect, Chris Ackerson on his thoughts on Watson and cognitive computing, as well as his specific tips and resources. Where do you see the Watson APIs growing in 2016 and beyond?


10 authors named L.A. Times Critics at Large, will contribute to Books section

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The Times has assembled a panel of distinguished and diverse writers who will regularly contribute to the Books section. The 10 authors who make up the Los Angeles Times Cultural Critics At Large have published works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. They have won dozens of prizes. A majority have deep connections to Southern California, even though they hail from four different nations. They will help expand the literary conversation, challenging ideas and broadening readers' understanding of literature and culture within the contemporary moment.


An AI's Novella Passes First Round of Japanese Literary Contest

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Join us live at Entrepreneur's Accelerate Your Business event series in Chicago or Denver. But the time may come soon since an AI recently impressed judges of a Japanese literary prize. The novella, The Day a Computer Writes a Novel, was co-written and edited by a team of humans. The story itself follows a computer program as it recognizes its talent for writing and leaves behind its preprogrammed duties. Initially, the book was included in the group of 11 AI-authored submissions allowed to enter the contest for the Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, according to Smithsonianmag.com.


How artificial intelligence is transforming the legal profession

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So he and his business partner, Dan Roth, decided to create a program that would help lawyers manage electronic documents for litigation. Their idea led them to purchase an e-discovery application. By 2000, Leib and his partner launched their own creation, Discovery Cracker. "We saw a gap in the marketplace," Leib says. Lawyers need tools to keep up with it." Instead of wading through piles of paper, lawyers now deal with terabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of documents. E-discovery, legal research and document review are more sophisticated due to the abundance of data. So while working as chief strategy officer at kCura in Chicago, Leib saw a need again in the market. "For years, lawyers have been stuck with antiquated tools that focus primarily … on Boolean search. Better tools are needed to truly understand data." "What is the future of the industry?


WHY I LOVE MACHINE LEARNING

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I fell in love with Machine Learning during my Master degree in Telecommunications Engineering and Information Technology. Since then I could never live without it and I see the world with different eyes. I have always been very fascinated by math and statistics, by how sometimes a very simple equation will describe extremely complex phenomena, how we can squeeze nature into a formula; at the same time my mind has always been captured by those phenomena, often very simple and part of our daily life reasoning and acting, that can't be represented by any mathematical form, no matter how convoluted. The idea of seeing the world through numbers has always exercised a certain spell on me. Then I discovered Machine Learning.


Beating Go and the road ahead for AI: Interview with Deep Mind's David Silver Digit.in

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When the artificial intelligence, AlphaGo, beat Go champion Lee Seedol at his own game, it created history. AlphaGo didn't just beat Lee at Go, it won four games out of five, an unprecedented victory that many hadn't expected. AlphaGo's neural networks took thousands of Go matches, played by human players, and added its own learning on top of that, to come out with moves that even a legend like Lee Seedol didn't expect. But is AlphaGo the breakthrough in machine learning that the world has been waiting for? We talked to David Silver, Research Scientist, Google Deep Mind, to learn the same.


Roanoke College announces IBM Watson executive as graduation speaker - Artificial Intelligence Online

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Angela also leaves behind her beloved companion, Eric Dunbar of Vinton and his children, Erica, Jonathan, Patrick and Kristen.She will be remembered as a beloved mother, sister, daughter, partner, and friend to countless others.Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, conducted from Conner-Bowman Funeral Home with Pastor Rick Poland officiating.Arrangements by Conner-Bowman Funeral Home, 62 Va.


Martin Ford Interview: The Relevance of Artificial Intelligence

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"The robots are coming" is not something Paul Revere said during the American Revolution, but it is certainly something many people have uttered over the years. So have we finally reached the tipping point where artificial intelligence and robots will begin to take over human jobs en masse? Perhaps not, but we are closer to the time when they will be even more essential assets and presences in the workforce, explains Martin Ford, the author of the book "Rise of the Robots." I caught up with Ford at The Economist magazine's Innovation Forum event, which was held earlier this month. He pointed out that artificial intelligence is making its way into sectors that were once manned by only man, including the legal profession, where computer systems such as Watson could muscle in on human territory to provide legal counsel, and even journalism where stories are being written without direct human input about some articles.