Artificial intelligence can predict the behavior of Congress. The health care bill winding its way through the U.S. Senate is just one of thousands of pieces of legislation Congress will consider this year, most doomed to failure. Indeed, only about 4% of these bills become law. So which ones are worth paying attention to? A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm could help.

Controversy followed: There were allegations of a culture of widespread sexism at Uber; a federal lawsuit by Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, accused the company of stealing its designs, leading ultimately to Uber's firing of Anthony Levandowski, the central figure in the allegations; and the Department of Justice opened an investigation into a software Uber used to sidestep authorities. Amid this Kalanick's own PR troubled mounted: He was filmed berating an Uber driver; it emerged he directed his engineers to camouflage the Uber app so Apple's engineers wouldn't see it, allowing the app to secretly track iPhones even after it was deleted; and at least one high-profile departure from the company said "the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber." Ultimately the very attributes that made Kalanick and Uber a darling of Silicon Valley's investors brought about his downfall. The company has been valued at about $70 billion, and investors feared that any initial-public offering would be imperiled by Uber's temperamental CEO. Taking a start-up chief executive to task so publicly is relatively unusual in Silicon Valley, where investors often praise entrepreneurs and their aggressiveness, especially if their companies are growing fast. It is only when those start-ups are in a precarious position or are declining that shareholders move to protect their investment.

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned late Tuesday night from the company he cofounded in 2009. While he'll remain on the board of directors, Kalanick's departure comes after months, if not years, of reports of a toxic workplace culture, cutthroat business tactics, and the occasional public embarrassment. It's not clear who will replace Kalanick. But what is clear is that this person will have a lot to correct. Here's a timeline of many, many upheavals that led the $69-billion startup to this crisis point.

Seven years after Google started developing robocars, 13 months after a Florida man died in a Tesla Model S that was driving itself, and almost a year after self-driving Ubers started picking up passengers in Pennsylvania, Congress might actually start regulating autonomous vehicles. Nearly everyone working on this emerging technology, from automakers to the tech companies to the government watchdogs, agrees that it's about time. The robocars scurrying about places like Austin and Boston and San Francisco operate under a mélange of state and local rules that lay down different requirements and appease myriad special interests. And if this patchwork persists, bringing these cars to the market could be a major headache. Last week, the Senate published bipartisan principles outlining what the legislation might look like.

Lynn Sedgwick (pictured right), Managing Director of legal recruiters, Clayton Legal, says: "Within larger law firms, the uptake of AI has been a recurrent theme. One of the respondents to Clayton Legal's research project, Andrew Kwan, Solicitor Advocate at Clear Law, describes his firm as "highly technological". One of Kwan's colleagues, at Clear Law, trainee, Miriam Khan, makes the point that AI and the human skill sets should complement each other rather than take opposing sides. Lynn concludes: "The human element can't, at least yet, be replaced by a robot.

Forget the artificial intelligence doomsday storylines you've seen in Terminator or The Matrix – AI is gaining traction and is here to help you in ways you couldn't have dreamed of. It's time to move past Siri and find out how AI can help you with your business. If you haven't already begun integrating it into your everyday life, you're falling behind the curve. You might have already had contact with AI without realizing. Faisal Khan, a cross-border money transfer specialist, has a story about chatting with a CEO and telling him he'd like to send his secretary something for New Year's Eve. The CEO replied, saying, "Uh, Amy's a bot.

A gap already exists between companies' ability to collect data and managers' skills at putting it to use. Will AI increase the divide? The use of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system offers a stark example of the contrast between knowing how to produce results and knowing how to consume them intelligently. Systems recommend bail and sentencing but offer little transparency about the basis for the recommendation, leaving the humans who digest the recommendations potentially under informed. What if we knew so little about the production processes of the food we eat?

Chatbots are great for customer service, ordering tickets, or just giving you weather updates, but others have nobler goals for their bots. Here are 6 bots, developed using a variety of technologies and APIs, and delivered via different interfaces, that are helping improve the world for everyone. DoNotPay started out as a cheeky service to help drivers get out of parking tickets. Stanford student Joshua Browder became more interested in bots after the online tool automatically challenged over 160,000 of them. People began contacting him asking for help with other legal issues relating to evictions, bankruptcies, and repossessions, so he decided to expand the capabilities of the bot to help homeless people.

FinTech (financial technology) is a term that many of us are familiar with. It is an area now receiving billions of pounds in investment, seeing new start-ups every week and that even has its own awards event. While lawyers may traditionally be late to the game to integrate technology, things are now rapidly changing across the profession. LegalTech has become a talking point across not just the legal world but across the entire media. Forbes, the Financial Times, and even the Royal Society have all commented on it in the past few months, with articles and reports exploring the future of artificial intelligence in law. LegalTech is many different things.