How might law firms harness the transformational potential of technological change to drive exponential business growth? We are at the start of a Fourth Industrial Revolution--a wave of transformation fueled by powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). This could drive a bigger wave of growth in the legal sector than any other change in history. Previous transformations gave us steam-based mechanization, electrification and mass production, and then electronics, information technology, and automation. This new era of smart machines is fueled by exponential improvement and convergence of multiple scientific and technological fields.

Bloomberg Law interviewed Shook Attorney Erin Bolan Hines about the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (AIVIA) in "Law on Hiring Robots Could Trigger Litigation for Employers," October 11, 2019. AIVIA is a first-in-the-nation statute that requires employers to take additional transparency steps involving use and destruction of videos when using "hiring robots" as a screening tool for applicants in Illinois. Enforcement of AIVIA is not clear and defense attorneys who advocate for employers are monitoring to see if it will lead to class actions alleging abuses of employees' biometric information. Hines told the publication she predicts plaintiffs will develop theories under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) to "test the waters." "There is a hurdle because there is no private right of action in the artificial intelligence statute, but there are some creative plaintiff's lawyers out there," stated Hines.

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Mansour asked Vorhies about Google's business engagements in China. "Google has gotten in trouble in the past for doing business with the Communist government of China," Mansour said. "And I wanted to ask you were those efforts ongoing when you were with the company? Can you give us any insight into that? Because it was quite troubling."

The promise of AI is easily understood by anyone with an imagination, and for 40 years, venture capitalists have been enthusiastically investing in that promise. However, it's been significantly harder for founders to turn that investment into sustainable business models. Today we are going to look at why that is, and go over what might be a blueprint for startups to create business models around artificial intelligence. Tatsuo Nakamura founded Valuenex in 2006 with the goal of using artificial intelligence to supplement the work being done by patent attorneys, and their software was instrumental in the resolution of one of Japan's most famous, and most valuable, lawsuits. We also talk about how to sell to large companies as a small startup, the challenges in trying to make product strategy based on technology, why staying private longer is not always a good thing for startups, and how Valuenex technology accidentally discovered a secret collaboration between Honda and Google. It's a great discussion with the founder of one of Japan's most successful AI companies, and I think you will really enjoy it. Welcome to Disrupting Japan, straight talk from Japan's most successful entrepreneurs. Today, we're going to be talking about something that's frankly difficult to talk about on an audio podcast. Tatsuo Nakamura founded Valuenex in 2006 to use Artificial Intelligence and modern visualization techniques to help clients make sense of their patent portfolios and to keep an eye on what the competition is doing. In fact, this technology uncovered some of the core evidence that decided the famous blue LED case. It's highly effective but highly visual, so let me try to explain it. Valuenex creates a kind of topographical map that shows companies where in the market, their IP is strong and where it's weak.

'Divorced from reality,' says critical law professor Are "virtuous sex robots" the way of the future? University researchers suggest that robots created for human pleasure should be designed so that they can grant or withhold consent, as well as teach sex education. Anco Peeters, a doctoral student at Australia's University of Wollongong, and Pim Haselager, associate professor at The Netherlands' Radboud University, published "Designing Virtuous Sex Robots" in the International Journal of Social Robotics last month. The paper examined four areas: "virtue ethics and social robotics," "Contra instrumentalist accounts," "Consent practice through sex robots" and "Implications of virtuous sex robots." The authors do not focus on child sex robots or sex robots that play into rape fantasies, but "the potential positive aspects of intimate human–robot interactions through the cultivation of virtues."

Application of discrete-time survival methods for continuous-time survival prediction is considered. For this purpose, a scheme for discretization of continuous-time data is proposed by considering the quantiles of the estimated event-time distribution, and, for smaller data sets, it is found to be preferable over the commonly used equidistant scheme. Furthermore, two interpolation schemes for continuous-time survival estimates are explored, both of which are shown to yield improved performance compared to the discrete-time estimates. The survival methods considered are based on the likelihood for right-censored survival data, and parameterize either the probability mass function (PMF) or the discrete-time hazard rate, both with neural networks. Through simulations and study of real-world data, the hazard rate parametrization is found to perform slightly better than the parametrization of the PMF. Inspired by these investigations, a continuous-time method is proposed by assuming that the continuous-time hazard rate is piecewise constant. The method, named PC-Hazard, is found to be highly competitive with the aforementioned methods in addition to other methods for survival prediction found in the literature.

A prototype for automated reasoning over legal texts, called NAI, is presented. As an input, NAI accepts formalized logical representations of such legal texts that can be created and curated using an integrated annotation interface. The prototype supports automated reasoning over the given text representation and multiple quality assurance procedures. The pragmatics of the NAI suite as well its feasibility in practical applications is studied on a fragment of the Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Act 2016 of the Scottish Parliament.

On October 15 the Democratic presidential candidates will once again have the opportunity to debate their positions on a range of issues affecting this country. Let's hope that this go-round we hear their visions for Digital America. Yes, health care, immigration, climate change and other topics that consumed the previous debates are important. Yes, impeachment is on the front page. But what is the agenda that provides hope and opportunity for Americans in a new digital-based economy? So far, much of the campaign focus on the new economy has been reduced to a misleadingly simple "break'em up!" solution for Big Tech.

The development of fast-moving technologies, particularly artificial intelligence is causing scientists, human rights activists, and scholars to consider the impact on humanity. In A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Who We Are, author and human rights attorney Flynn Coleman examines the impact AI will have on humans. Coleman advocates for a diverse group of voices to participate in designing intelligent machines to ensure that, "human rights, empathy, and equity are core principles of emerging technologies." EVENT INFO: Flynn Coleman will be reading from her book, A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Who We Are, at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park tonight, Mon, Oct.14th, at 7 PM. Watch New Day Northwest 11 AM weekdays on KING 5, and streaming live on KING5.com.