Thursday, June 16, 2011

computers and the law

Welcome to Robot, Android & Automaton LLP - The Globe and Mail
Robot lawyers obviously can’t replace human intuition, or perfectly predict the outcomes of individual cases. Nor can they totally replace the experience of human lawyers. But Prof. Katz argues that a computer that can chew through reams of cases, judgments and judges’ citations – more than any human lawyer could ever digest – and spit out a percentage chance of success could be very useful to clients who are looking for a second opinion.

“The real weakness of human reasoners is aggregation or scale. You can’t do these things at that level. No person can,” he said