LawDroid Lesson: AI and Chatbots 101

Hi, I'm Tom Martin and today's LawDroid lesson is about AI and Chatbots. I'm the co-founder of the Vancouver chapter of Legal Hackers, and I've created LawDroid which is an AI legal assistant to help people solve their legal problems. In short it's a computer program that simulates a conversation with a person and a lot of people say that Chatbots are the new apps because they're on your mobile phone and they're proliferating like crazy. Well, intelligence is hard to define but in 1950 the Godfather of computers, Alan Turing, came up with a test and basically he said that if you're able to have a five minute conversation by text and you can't tell whether or not the other person who's talking to you is a computer or a person, the computer's passed the test. Actually he predicted that by the year 2000 the computer would win that test 30% of the time.