Feb. 12, 2021
Using AI and chess-playing for thinking incisively about the law
Lawyers in the act of practicing law can be envisioned as playing a type of game, ostensibly a variant of chess. It makes sense to therefore contemplate how chess is played, and especially how AI chess-playing systems work since this can reveal insights for those that practice law and also for how AI might someday be your partner in undertaking legal reasoning.
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.
Don't move until you see it.
That's the repeated refrain in the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and refers to the notion that until the chess-playing child prodigy can envision what move to make, he should not make any move at all.
This might seem like an obvious piece of advice, namely, to think before you act, but the rub is that these chess matches are a nail-biting timeboxed event and for ea...
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