1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE… ARTIFICIAL LAWYERS?
Harry Phillips American Inn of Court
January 18, 2018

2. AI is Everywhere, and its Role is Expanding.
Examples Today:
Recommendations: Amazon, Netflix, Pandora
Spam filters
Voice-to-text
Facebook tags
Nest Thermostats
Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant
Self-driving cars

3. How Modern AI Became Possible
The dream of intelligent, autonomous machines dates at least to ancient Greece.
Three developments have made it possible:
More powerful computers
Artificial neural networks
The use of large data sets

4. 1. More Powerful Computers: Moore’s Law
The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
This “law” has held for decades:

6. Moore’s Law: 1969 vs. 2017 Apollo Guidance Computer, 1969 Iphone x
CHANGE
Processor speed: MHz
Memory: 64 Kbyte
Cost: $3.5 million
2390 MHz
6 cores
Up to 256 Gbyte
$1,149
336,000 x
4,200,000 x
< 1/3,000th

7. 2. Artificial Neural Networks
Traditional, linear programming logic follows pre-specified, human instructions.
Artificial neural networks, in contrast, employ countless individually-operative neural switches that are arranged and conditioned to react to inputs en masse.

8. Traditional programming logic is linear.

9. Neural Networks use uncountable pathways that are shaped over time in response to data inputs.

10. 3. The use of large data sets: Big Data
Modern AI systems are “trained” by running huge amounts of data through a neural network.
As the system “learns,” it identifies patterns in the data – patterns not specified by human programmers.
This pattern recognition is central to the system’s function:
Who likes what movies
What is spam
What word corresponds to a given sound
Whose face is in an image
How SCOTUS will rule . . .

11. Use of AI in Law Today Technology-Assisted Document Review
Westlaw Plain Language Searches
Contract Review
Behavior Prediction (Courts, Jurors )