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I don't have a great citation to hand, but one of the key offerings of Autonomy is software which does exactly that - combs through discovery documents, reducin

• rayiner 14y ago
  Autonomy makes predictive coding software, which uses Bayesian algorithms to identify potentially relevant documents in a corpus. But the situation doesn't quite fit the usual "technology eliminating the need for people" narrative. Yes, now you don't need as many document review attorneys, but 15 years ago, you didn't need those people anyway, because there weren't huge amounts of e-mail to review. Technology created a huge temporary spike in the volume of documents and thus the need for document review attorneys in the late 1990's and 2000's, and technology has now eliminated a substantial amount of that demand (but not all), but that doesn't really explain longer-term (20-30+ year) trends within the profession. Also, prediction: when everyone has Google Glass, the discovery demands will explode again until someone invents software that figures out what is happening in a video.