Can your AI vendors answer these basic 17 questions? Most cannot!

If you enjoyed this content, please share! As we've been at pains to describe elsewhere, hype hurts AI. Add to that a busy legal AI vendor space – some 67 "AI" products in 11 verticals by one count in 2018. Most buyers of legal AI products are left confused in terms of what to ask AI vendors in order to understand what to buy. Dollop lashings of "Robot Lawyer" articles replete stock photo of gavel wielding android and it's no wonder some AI vendors play fast and loose, whether deliberately or by omission, with their product claims. This article provides 17 basic questions you can use to test the knowledge of AI vendors (or experts) regarding AI and whether what they are selling / telling you is right for your need. This article is not meant to be exhaustive, nor demonstrate how to authoritatively benchmark one tool vs. another – hopefully we can cover that in a later post! For now, these are indicative of the types of things should try to know about AI vendors to help you make the right decisions.