Order, order! World’s first robot lawyer hired by US firm

The robot called ‘ROSS’ is built upon Watson, IBM’s cognitive computer. (Representative image)WASHINGTON: 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 license ROSS…


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