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My wife is in law school. The work software can do is still severely limited. I personally think we are on the cusp of a revolution in this, but we aren't the
by CapitalistCartr 10y ago
My wife is in law school. The work software can do is still severely limited. I personally think we are on the cusp of a revolution in this, but we aren't there yet. Watson could probably do it, if it were as important as doctoring.
Software has made major strides. The old way of sending multiple copies between sides to be hand redone for each change required stupid amounts of labor. Now we have Word. But understanding the importance of particular documents still requires humans. For now.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoThanks for the context. I appreciate it!
- kbenson 10y ago> Watson could probably do it, if it were as important as doctoring. I initially read that with the alternative meaning of doctoring, which is is a rather amusing take on it.
- HillRat 10y agoIBM actually has a system trained on a legal corpus, used for tracking down potentially-relevant case and statute law. There isn't a huge amount of client funding in legal AI compared to other applications, and the problems are much harder than more restricted domains like medicine and pharma, but there's enough cash to do some interesting work.