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.
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
That might be true, but it is confoundingly problematic if you were to try and use that definition in a legal matter. In a sense, beauty would be relatively amorphous, semantically indeterminate, and be imbued with individualistic arbitrariness.
What else has those same qualms?
You might recall the famous utteranc...
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