artificial intelligence impact legal profession
Artificial intelligence impacts legal profession
Larry W. Bridgesmith, J.D., is an adjunct professor of law and coordinator of the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt Law School. You've probably seen one of the many commercials featuring the IBM supercomputer Watson, which made waves a few years ago when it easily defeated two "Jeopardy!" Watson even analyzes trends in music now, as seen in a recent advertising spot featuring Bob Dylan. Perhaps you read where a Google software program just beat a world master champion at Go, a game of intelligence, strategy and intuition far more complex than chess. Instead, the strength of artificial intelligence lies in its effect on the ways we do our jobs -- jobs we might have assumed would always be performed by humans.