Machine learning has conquered chess, Jeopardy!, and Go. It flies airplanes, assists in surgery, and drives cars. Can we seriously doubt that it will change the practice of law as well? Andrew Arruda helped create ROSS Intelligence as part of a team at the University of Toronto, applying IBM’s Watson to legal research, starting with bankruptcy. ROSS Intelligence can process natural language legal questions and reply with highly relevant passages that answer the question, and it can learn from its successes and failures. This has been a fast year for Andrew and his team, securing funding from the Dentons Nextlaw Labs and early subscriptions from major law firms.
