World’s first robot lawyer ROSS hired by US law firm BakerHostetler

The world’s first artificial intelligence lawyer has been employed by a law firm in the US, which will use the robot to assist its various teams in legal research. The robot called ‘ROSS’ is built upon Watson, IBM’s cognitive computer. With the support of Watson’s cognitive computing and natural language processing capabilities, lawyers can ask ROSS their research question and the robot reads through the law, gathers evidence, draws inferences and returns highly relevant, evidence-based answers.

ROSS also monitors the law around the clock to notify users of new court decisions that can affect a case. The programme continually learns from the lawyers who use it to bring back better results each time.

BakerHostetler, a US-based law firm, will licence ROSS for use in its Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights team. “At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients,” said Bob Craig, chief information officer.

ROSS Intelligence, the company that built ROSS, began out of research at the University of Toronto in 2014 with the goal of building an artificial intelligence legal research assistant to allow lawyers to enhance and scale their abilities. Just ten months after they began teaching ROSS bankruptcy law, the company has been commercialising its first offering.

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Infosys sets eyes on AI

Originally published in EconomicTimes

India's second largest software exporter Infosys is putting its might behind some of the biggest futuristic bets that the company is making, such as its newest artificial intelligence platform MANA, and putting key leaders in charge of developing these products, amid a scramble to hire top talent from the world's biggest tech hub, the Silicon Valley. 

In an interview, Infosys' head of architecture and technology Navin Budhiraja said the company is looking to beef up its products and platform teams in the Valley and has also doubled the size of its special "supercoders" team, which is called the Expert Track programme, as it looks to generate more revenue from newer areas of technology, at a time when margins are rapidly eroding in traditional outsourcing businesses.

Infosys has also tasked leaders such as Samson David, who currently heads the company's cloud and infrastructure business, to head a unit called the Expert Services team, which will play a key role in the development of newer software platforms such as Mana. "What I see going forward is MANA becoming the centerpiece of all of the automation work that we do," said Budhiraja in an interview.

"We want to bring AI to the enterprise to solve a set of issues that we see... MANA is a culmination of the work we're doing around the Big Data platform, around the Automation platform, around the knowledge platform."

As part of its work around Mana, which has been designed to automate routine maintenance tasks in outsourced software projects using AI and machine learning, Infosys is hiring more executives who have specialised in these futuristic areas. "We have teams in four broad areas — one is the core product engineering team who actually works on the platforms (IAP, IIP, IKP); corresponding product management and product marketing teams; then there's something that we call the Expert Services team — typically in a product company you would call them the professional services team.

The third layer is the actual account teams. And lastly, it is the sales team," explained Budhiraja. "The Expert Services team will be run by Samson David who also runs our infrastructure business.

He has been instrumental around running a lot of implementations around IAP. He will have the expert services team underneath him which will primarily based out of India," he added.

While Bangalore-based Infosys is looking to beef up its teams that focus on areas such as artificial intelligence, Budhiraja conceded that hiring people for such positions had not been easy because such skills are in short supply.

"We've hired a couple of people already, their focus is around AI and natural language processing. This is a hard skill to find," he said. "We are hiring key folks both in the US and India. We are also looking for talent in areas such as next-gen apps, apps that are self-healing, etc —that's the kind of talent we are looking for. Also for product management and product marketing."

Going forward, Infosys also plans to double the strength of its "Expert Track" team, which consists of "supercoders" who the company feels are the creme-dela-creme of programming talent and are capable of solving any software-related problem.

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Google flood alerts (India)
Source: Indiatoday

Google has introduced a new flood alerts feature in India as part of its efforts to make critical information around natural disasters more accessible to everyone. Available via Google public alerts platform, the alerts will be displayed on Google apps such as Google web search, Google maps and Google Now cards, clicking on the alerts, users will be provided with details about hazards, expected timeline, maps and few tips to stay safe. 

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Searching without Searching -Introduced by "AMIT SINGHAL" 

Source: ITworld and Indiatoday

         Top men at Google are working on a breathtaking new approach to Web search. One of these is Amit Singhal, who characterized the future of search as "searching  without searching." The idea is that Google will have so much data on you that it will know what you want before you do. He is not as well known as Larry page, Sergey brin and of late Sundar Pichai. 

        He is probably the single most important person in Google. The reason why he is such a big deal in Google is because he runs the company's core search operations. He is the man who, who for last 15years, has kept Google the best damn search engine in the world. 

    Singhal famously re-wrote the original Google algorithm that was created earlier by Larry Page. He reportedly changed it completely to suit the existing challenges. This apparently impressed Larry Page so much that Singhal was put in charge of Google's secret sauce -- its search algorithm -- and was tasked to keep it fresh and relevant.

    Specifically, Google search would know about your preferences, hobbies, favorite activities and more. It would know all the events in your life, such as the birthdays and anniversaries of family and friends. It would also scan the Internet for relevant events, as well as social networks for trending topics and breaking news.

         When someone's birthday is coming, it would suggest a gift based not only on what Google knows about that person, but also what it knows about product availability and ship times to make sure the recipient gets the goods on time.

        And Search would make decisions based on its constant review of all your stuff. For example, if there's slow traffic on the way to a meeting on your calendar, it might alert you to leave early.

         Like some kind of sci-fi artificial intelligence robot, Google search of the future will suggest things to you out of the blue, presenting you with search results for things you never searched for -- "searching without searching." And now Amit Singhal announced that he was retiring from Google. Singhal's official designation at Google is " Vice-president" and Google Fellow. The Fellow is particularly noteworthy because this is the title Google gives only to its most distinguishes engineers.  

World's First ever "Disabled TOY" introduced by LEGO
          
  -- A step towards ending the  "Cultural Marginalization" 
Source: Independent.co.uk and deccanchronicle.com/viral and trending

The figure of the young person using a wheelchair was first seen at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany on Wednesday but Lego has said it will not be available to buy until June.

It comes after Rebecca Atkinson launched the #ToyLikeMe campaign last year, urging Lego to draw an end to disabled children being “culturally excluded from your much-loved products”.

The new Lego figure is in a wheelchair and is accompanied by a helper dog

Her Change.org petition has garnered more than 20,000 signatures in support of Lego producing a more diverse set of figures.

The petition reads: “There are 150 million children with disabilities worldwide. Yet these kids are arriving into a world where… they’re excluded or misrepresented by the very industry that exists to create their entertainment, the objects that fuel their development, the starting blocks of life: Toys!”

Commenting on the launch of Lego's new product, Ms Atkinson said she was “beyond happy”.  

She said it was a step towards ending “cultural marginalization”, adding it would “speak volumes to children, disabled or otherwise, the world over”. This new toy set, which includes the wheelchair-riding mini-figure along with 14 others, a carousel, a picnic bench and a lawn mower, is scheduled to be released in June. 

In 2014, Lego had beaten the maker of Barbie, Mattel, to take its place as the 'biggest toy company in the world'.

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