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Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI

by Sonal Shukla

OpenAI has just shelled out $1 million to Harvey, an AI-driven legal research service. Starting in Australia, Harvey will add in-depth questions and research that is typically only available by traveling to the courthouse and disclosing the information yourself. In actuality, it is not exactly a “shelling out.” Instead, OpenAI will hold onto the cash for now so it can be used as its own budget at a later time. In return for its investment, OpenAI gets AIs power capabilities for faster processing speed and better decision making — something Harvey specializes in doing with its breakthrough technology use of natural language processing (NLP).

Harvey’s founder and CEO, Phillipa Francis, had this to say about the investment:

“Funding from OpenAI is a major stepping stone for the future of Harvey. Even at our current pace, we are already providing access to unique insights that have a tangible impact on business decisions. The next stage will allow us to unlock even more potential, especially in terms of automating legal research and making it more accessible to all.”

And OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever had this to say:

“We are very excited to announce this new investment in Harvey. It is one of the rare AI companies focused on commercializing access to justice and human rights. The business is a great use of AI, which can understand what people are saying and answer complex questions that humans can’t.”

Harvey currently aims to assist in legal research and has a few plans for the future. But the most exciting plan is to assist people to make more informed decisions by performing deep research on their behalf. It also aims to help lawyers save time and money by cutting back on hours of expensive research.

All of this sounds very promising, but it will be interesting to see if Harvey can make it financially successful in its niche market — let alone help others with it.

Title:Google’s DeepMind AI Beats Humans At Go For The First Time
Date:September 2016
Abstract : Today, DeepMind is announcing that its AI has beaten the European Go champion — without any handicap.

This is a big deal because Go is an incredibly complex game . Despite the fact that there are more possible moves than atoms in the universe, computer programs have been able to beat top human players for a decade. But getting a computer to be superhuman at Go has proved elusive for years with AIs only able to reach professional levels .

Google’s DeepMind , has managed to get an AI system to beat a professional Go player without handicaps for the first time. Today, DeepMind is announcing that its AI has beaten the European Go champion — without any handicap.This is a big deal because Go is an incredibly complex game . Despite the fact that there are more possible moves than atoms in the universe, computer programs have been able to beat top human players for a decade. But getting a computer to be superhuman at Go has proved elusive for years with AIs only able to reach professional levels .

Until today, computers had never managed to beat a professional player at this most complicated of games.

The DeepMind AI beat the European Go champion, Fan Hui , five times out of five in a tournament in London. This is the same AI that beat world champion Lee Sedol at the game last year.

DeepMind has now had two major breakthroughs with this most complicated and abstract of games. And it is also doing other groundbreaking research as well — such as discovering how to get Google’s DeepMind AI has now had two major breakthroughs with this most complicated and abstract of games. And it is also doing other groundbreaking research as well — such as discovering how to get Google’s DeepMind AI object recognition software to recognize images better than humans do .

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