There is an evident lack of implementation of Machine Learning (ML) in the legal domain in India, and any research that does take place in this domain is usually based on data from the higher courts of law and works with English data. The lower courts and data from the different regional languages of India are often overlooked. In this paper, we deploy a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture on a corpus of Hindi legal documents. We perform a bail Prediction task with the help of a CNN model and achieve an overall accuracy of 93\% which is an improvement on the benchmark accuracy, set by Kapoor et al. (2022), albeit in data from 20 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Gathering properly labelled, adequately rich, and case-specific data for successfully training a data-driven or hybrid model for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications is a challenging task. We posit that a Transfer Learning (TL) method that utilizes available data in any relevant source domain and directly applies to the target domain through domain adaptation can provide substantial remedies to address this issue. Accordingly, we present a novel TL method that differentiates between the source's no-damage and damage cases and utilizes a domain adaptation (DA) technique. The DA module transfers the accumulated knowledge in contrasting no-damage and damage cases in the source domain to the target domain, given only the target's no-damage case. High-dimensional features allow employing signal processing domain knowledge to devise a generalizable DA approach. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture is adopted for learning since its optimization process accommodates high-dimensional inputs in a zero-shot setting. At the same time, its training objective conforms seamlessly with the case of no-damage and damage data in SHM since its discriminator network differentiates between real (no damage) and fake (possibly unseen damage) data. An extensive set of experimental results demonstrates the method's success in transferring knowledge on differences between no-damage and damage cases across three strongly heterogeneous independent target structures. The area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics curves (Area Under the Curve - AUC) is used to evaluate the differentiation between no-damage and damage cases in the target domain, reaching values as high as 0.95. With no-damage and damage cases discerned from each other, zero-shot structural damage detection is carried out. The mean F1 scores for all damages in the three independent datasets are 0.978, 0.992, and 0.975.

Machine learning techniques can provide an assumption-free analysis of epidemic case data with surprisingly good prediction accuracy and the ability to dynamically incorporate the latest data, a new KAUST study has shown. The proof of concept developed by Yasminah Alali, a student in KAUST's 2021 Saudi Summer Internship (SSI) program, demonstrates a promising alternative approach to conventional parameter-driven mechanistic models that removes human bias and assumptions from analysis and shows the underlying story of the data. Working with KAUST's Ying Sun and Fouzi Harrou, Alali leveraged her experience working with artificial intelligence models to develop a framework to fit the characteristics and time-evolving nature of epidemic data using publicly reported COVID-19 incidence and recovery data from India and Brazil. "My major at college was artificial intelligence, and I previously worked on a medical project using various ML algorithms," says Alali. "Working with Professor Sun and Dr Harrou during my internship, we considered whether the Gaussian Process Regression method would be useful for predicting pandemic spread because it gives confidence intervals for the predictions, which can greatly assist decision-makers." Accurate forecasting of cases during a pandemic is essential to help mitigate and slow transmission.

The terms "artificial intelligence" and "machine learning" immediately bring up thoughts from movies like "The Matrix" where machines become self-aware and want to end the world. While this may make for an exciting plot in Hollywood, it is not reality outside of the theater. In real life, however, machine learning--which gives computers the ability to see hidden patterns in existing data and progressively improve performance ("learn") without being explicitly programmed--serves as a practical tool to data analysts. The job is not to turn robots into people, but instead efficiently find recurring themes that would otherwise remain obscured inside of large amounts of data to provide end-users with actionable information. These technologies have played a pivotal role in reducing fraud, waste and abuse in organizations of all types and sizes, including departments of revenue that collect taxes.

Legal artificial intelligence (AI) was a major theme at this year's International Legal Technology Association Conference (ILTACon 2017). At ILTACon, law firm IT and a small group of in-house lawyers, network, learn from each other, and attend educational sessions. It is an amazing opportunity to catch up on legal technology. This year my radar was searching for an update on what is really happening with legal AI in law firms. Are law firms getting beyond the hype and using AI?