Later this month, Elexirr will hold a man (lawyer) vs. machine (AI) competition to see who’s best at predicting the success of complaints to The Financial Ombudsman Service. This link includes a link to register to compete.
- AI doesn’t just analyze and predict, it can create art, music, prose, news stories and more. This post is a good overview of creative AI and the relevant copyright considerations.
Intraspexion does “preventative law with AI.” I enjoyed this quote from Richard Susskind re their founder’s 2015 book, Preventing Litigation: An Early Warning System to Get Big Value Out of Big Data: “As a lawyer or client, if you prefer a fence at the top of a cliff to an ambulance at the bottom, this insightful book is essential reading.”
This interesting interview with Malcolm Frank presents his division of AI in business into three categories: 1) digitizing the customer experience, 2) creating smart products through digital extension, and 3) robotic processes behind the scenes. He mentions JP Morgan’s COIN contracts technology.
- HT to Ron Friedmann for reposting this piece on the role of KM in an AI world by Nick Milton at Knoco stories .
- If you’re new to AI, you’ll benefit from this: “12 Artificial Intelligence Terms You Need to Know.”
- Here’s a fun and interesting infographic presenting lots of stats about AI. “3 Powerful Ways How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Your Content Marketing.”
- Microsoft is intent on moving beyond narrow/vertical AI to general AI. They now have 8000 employees in the group focused on that goal. For instance, they’re partnering with Chinese search engine Baidu re self-driving cars.
- Speaking of Microsoft, here’s an interesting/scary thought. Their CEO says it will be up to the tech giants to define ethics in the age of AI.
This post presents the AI vision of IBM (aka, “Watson”) CEO Ginni Rometty.

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