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Push Research: How AI Is Fundamentally Changing The Way We Research The Law

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Push Research: How AI Is Fundamentally Changing The Way We Research The Law

 

"Twenty years ago, two Stanford graduate students worked on an idea that would become the underpinnings for one of the most important innovations — and one of the most successful companies — of the past century. The idea, “PageRank,” is that you can determine how important a web page is based on which other pages linked to it. This simple insight developed into Google, still today’s best way of finding websites.

Since this innovation two decades ago, not much has changed about how we find information online — not on Google nor for lawyers in the legal databases we interact with daily. You still type in words and see a list of responses. The algorithms have sharpened, but we haven’t seen major leaps forward in the way that PageRank fundamentally changed everything.

That is, until now. A new wave of technology will transform the way we think about research, and may have an impact equal to PageRank. That technology, what some are calling “Push Research,” is one of the most consequential applications of artificial intelligence technology, especially to lawyers..."

 

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