Toronto mayor John Tory recently helped welcome ROSS Intelligence, legal artificial intelligence (AI) leader, back to Toronto. ROSS applies AI and Machine Learning to legal research and has recently opened an R&D lab at U of T.
The company started as a course project at U of T’s computer science department in 2014. With its initial success, ROSS moved to Silicon Valley and became a member of the successful Y Combinator tech incubator and recently landed $8.3 million in Seed A funding.
What if you could reply to a work email hands-free while in traffic? Dragon Dictation by Nuance, makers of the widely-used “naturally speaking” desktop dictation application, have released a mobile version that lets you take advantage of its voice recognition software on your phone.
On the weekend of June 2nd, Neesons hosted a Legal Hackathon that brought together several hundred programmers, software designers, lawyers, and other interested parties. A dozen teams formed on Friday night and the coding began!
Teams were provided with several possible challenges including improving automated transcription, using AI to streamline document review, creating a system to pro-actively monitor file status, and a wildcard – anything they could think of that would improve the legal industry.
It seems every month we learn about new applications and opportunities for Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of the big players is IBM’s Watson that famously beat the best human Jeopardy player back in 2011. And it’s been learning ever since.
IBM’s Financial Software Solutions group recently announced a new application for Watson.
Worldox GX4, the latest version of Worldox, rolled out last fall, does not disappoint. With new features and a user-friendly redesign, GX4 is proving to be Worldox’s best document management release yet.
