Supercharging Patent Lawyers With AI How Silicon Valley's Lex Machina is blending AI and data analytics to radically alter patent litigation

Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 10 months ago to Technology
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“There’s been a quiet transition going on in the legal world,” Katz says. And that transition will shake up the legal profession. “Human reasoning, at least some part of it, is going to be replaced by machine-based prediction.” If Lex Machina succeeds, there will eventually be fewer frivolous lawsuits—and maybe fewer lawyers too.

Is the projected impact of AI in legal research really going to be as dramatic as the author implies?

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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But you've got to admit, particularly as it relates to Trolls, it's going to have an impact. Maybe negative or positive, but an impact nevertheless. I suspect very few cases actually make it into court, much less to trial.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 10 months ago
    One one hand I think the answer is yes, although I wonder if I'm making the same mistake of extrapolating aerospace technology from the period between WWII and the first moon shot.

    I just finished The Second Machine Age, which covers a lot of this; it covers a lot that will already be familiar to anyone working in technology. It says automation will continue to shake up the labor market. I agree. It proposes some socialistic solutions that I'm not sure of. I say I'm not sure b/c I don't have a better solution, but I think one may exist.

    My guess is machine-based prediction will replace some human reasoning. Even if that doesn't happen, I think the legal industry is ripe for disruption anyway.
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