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FOCUS OF THE DAY: First AI lawyer “closer to commercial release than expected” as law firm pilot expands. Lawyers routinely over-estimate the current state of machine-learning computers but under-estimate their potential future capabilities, according to the chief executive of ROSS Intelligence, the company building an application billed as the world’s first “artificially intelligent attorney”. Full story - Legal Futures
FOCUS OF THE DAY: First AI lawyer “closer to commercial release than expected” as law firm pilot expands. Lawyers routinely over-estimate the current state of machine-learning computers but under-estimate their potential future capabilities, according to the chief executive of ROSS Intelligence, the company building an application billed as the world’s first “artificially intelligent attorney”. Full story - Legal Futures
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