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Your Next Competitor Isn’t Another Law Firm: A Conversation With Richard Susskind

In the 1980s, Richard Susskind helped build the world's first fully operational AI system that actually worked for lawyers. It ran on what he calls knowledge engineering: sitting down with a deep expert in an area of law, translating what they knew into rules, and mapping the whole thing out as an enormous decision tree....

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In the 1980s, Richard Susskind helped build the world's first fully operational AI system that actually worked for lawyers.

It ran on what he calls knowledge engineering: sitting down with a deep expert in an area of law, translating what they knew into rules, and mapping the whole thing out as an enormous decision tree....

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In the 1980s, Richard Susskind helped build the world's first fully operational AI system that actually worked for lawyers. It ran on what he calls knowledge engineering: sitting down with a deep expert in an area of law, translating what they knew into rules, and mapping the whole thing out as an enormous decision tree....

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