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The winter, the summer and the summer dream of artificial intelligence in law
Francesconi, E. The winter, the summer and the summer dream of artificial intelligence in law. Artif Intell Law (2022) [full text is free]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-022-09309-8
“Presidential address to the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Enrico Francesconi – “This paper reflects my address as IAAIL president at ICAIL 2021. It is aimed to give my vision of the status of the AI and Law discipline, and possible future perspectives. In this respect, I go through different seasons of AI research (of AI and Law in particular): from the Winter of AI, namely a period of mistrust in AI (throughout the eighties until early nineties), to the Summer of AI, namely the current period of great interest in the discipline with lots of expectations. One of the results of the first decades of AI research is that “intelligence requires knowledge”.
Since its inception the Web proved to be an extraordinary vehicle for knowledge creation and sharing, therefore it’s not a surprise if the evolution of AI has followed the evolution of the Web.
I argue that a bottom-up approach, in terms of machine/deep learning and NLP to extract knowledge from raw data, combined with a top-down approach, in terms of legal knowledge representation and models for legal reasoning and argumentation, may represent a promotion for the development of the Semantic Web, as well as of AI systems. Finally, I provide my insight in the potential of AI development, which takes into account technological opportunities and theoretical limits.”
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Covid-19 Deaths Are Not Over Counted Gideon M-K, Health Nerd. A deep dive into death certificates. “[D]eaths are fairly complex, and it’s often quite hard to pin down just one thing that ‘caused’ someone to die…. Now, it may shock you, but the people who manage death reporting systems are actually aware of all of this. Indeed, we build our entire systems to acknowledge that death is not necessarily a simple event, because we need to capture that complexity for a whole variety of reasons (if nothing else, it’s important for legal purposes to know what happened when someone dies).” This is Australia, and I assume the UK. I don’t know about the US. Readers?