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Technology,
Law Practice

Nov. 12, 2020

Importance of the Turing Test for AI and the law

Efforts to achieve artificial intelligence that can perform legal reasoning ostensibly on par with human attorneys are ongoing. Presumably, such AI would ultimately be subject to proper certification and testing for validating its legal acumen, in which case, the venerated Turing Test, well-known within the AI field, could become crucial in such matters.

Lance Eliot

Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.

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