The metaverse raises several curious questions regarding its legal implications. Just like other forms of social media, there will be a series of compliance and legal requirements that impact the metaverse. Exactly how any...more
The essence of formulating a competitive strategy is relating a company to its environment. Today, few conversations about industry environment and market forces can continue very far without discussing data, its challenges,...more
Image classification AI can find existing application in document review. Examples include identifying documents containing specific logo’s, separating our schematics or patent data, and identifying oil field maps and...more
At a critical moment during the 2011 movie Margin Call, the CEO of a fictional Wall Street investment bank addresses his board on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis: “There are three ways to make a living in this business:...more
The recent developments in AI and machine learning across industries have convinced many that this innovation is on par with the great, transformative technologies of the past: electricity, cars, plastics, the microchip, the...more
The current moment is bursting with opportunity to the bold and fearless business leader of tomorrow. We are collectively at a point of great change, where the nature of work has become increasingly more fluid. Today,...more
There is no wasted time studying the variety of algorithms at our disposal. After all, their relevance is determined by factors both within and outside our control. However, the growing variety of data from both communication...more
Start thinking about your data as a capital asset. This is not an original idea. Douglas B Laney from Gartner built a strong argument around this concept in his book Infonomics: How to monetize, manage, and measure...more
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a software technology that enables the automation of digital tasks. With RPA, firms can create digital robots, or ‘bots’, that can learn, mimic, and then execute rules-based business...more
Four Essential Principles of Quantum Computation The answer to the question “what is a quantum computer?” encompasses quantum mechanics (QM), quantum information theory (QIT) and computer science (CS). It is a device that...more
There is a good chance that at some stage in the past year you have come across the term ‘quantum’ used in any one of a variety of contexts. It could have been while watching movies like Palm Springs on Hulu, that (spoiler...more
Technology and services firms within the legal industry are experiencing growth in private investment from both VC, PE, and M&A. While this can be very profitable for the firms involved, it can create challenges for the law...more
Twenty years ago, there was a huge gulf between China and the United States on AI research. While the U.S. was witnessing sustained growth in research efforts by both public institutions and private sectors, China was still...more
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Within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) there are a number of techniques that can be deployed for the purpose of information retrieval and understanding the relationships between documents. The growth in...more
What do you say if somebody asks you what the algorithm is doing with your data? How does it learn? What is it looking at and why? Defensible use of AI is important, whether during litigation or through some other application...more
K. Anders Ericsson was a Swedish psychologist who spent much of his academic career researching the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He studied expertise across a variety of domains to understand how...more
For every stakeholder, AI should feel simple. If it does not feel simple, then there are likely problems somewhere in the delivery. This could be issues with communication, challenges to implementation, the wrong...more
The next decade will witness the introduction of AI regulation at both the Federal and State level. Much of this regulation will focus on the use of autonomous and self-driving cars. In 2016 the Obama administration...more
Never has a robust information governance solution been more important than today. The explosion in new and varied form of data has long required a more sophisticated approach to understanding and managing data. If 2020...more
The past five years have witnessed a steady growth in both the testing and application of AI solutions for both legal ops and litigation teams. Whilst many of these applications are early stage, some are beginning to see...more
In March 2016, Lee Sedol, the Korean Go 18-time world champion, played and lost a five-game match against DeepMind’s AlphaGo, a Go-playing program that used deep learning networks to evaluate board positions and possible...more
Now we are at the end of 2020, what does your 2021 look like? Putting aside the emotions of 2020, what are the priorities that you want to set? How will this impact the people around you?
This year I’ve been fortunate to...more
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. The Luddite movement emerged during the harsh...more
Throughout the eDiscovery process there are critical moments where mishandled data or sloppy analysis could derail the entire effort and result in disastrous outcomes. The EDRM model is our best attempt to develop a coherent...more
Covid-19 has forced eDiscovery service providers (SP) to solve data security challenges whilst employees work from remote locations with no clear end-date in sight. This has created challenges toward maintaining a secure...more