Artificial Intelligence, ROSS and the legal industry - Bar & Bench

According to a recent report in Futurism, US law firm Baker & Hostetler, has become the first law firm to employ the IBM Watson-powered lawyer'ROSS'- the world's first artificially intelligent attorney. ROSS will now be used in the firm's bankruptcy practice; with other firms making similar plans. According to this blog post on the IBM website, all one has to do is ask ROSS a question as a client would to his lawyer. And instead of spending countless hours on going through voluminous documents, ROSS will use a "cognitive computing system" to go through the relevant legislations and judicial pronouncements within a matter of seconds. Not only can ROSS can sort through more than a billion text documents each second, IBM claims that it learns from feedback and gets smarter over time.