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Machines Stomp Lawyers in Legalese Smackdown

Cue the sad tuba and attorney jokes: Machines just landed the hurt on lawyers. LawGeex, an Israel-based startup focused on automating contract reviews, released a study showing its AI software pummels lawyers in document review accuracy. The AI service outperformed 20 corporate lawyers at identifying legal risks in nondisclosure agreement contracts.

U.S. and EU governments agree on deals to allocate 5G spectrum

5G’s secret weapon will be low latency, empowering next-gen VR and gaming

The Costly Fiasco of Minnesota’s Licensing and Registration System

How long should a state take to develop an information system to manage its vehicle and driver services’ transactions? For Minnesota, the wish is that it is only going to be the 11 years it is now scheduled to take.

Humanizing Medicine with AI – Enabling Docs to Speak with Their Patients

MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks

Understanding word vectors in NLP

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how word vectors work. This tutorial assumes a good amount of Python knowledge, but even if you’re not a Python expert, you should be able to follow along and make small changes to the examples without too much trouble.

AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

The man who bottled evolution

Thirty years ago, MSU researcher Richard Lenski added his now-famous bacteria to 12 inaugural flasks, a process he and his team of lab technicians and students have been repeating daily ever since.

Here’s Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile

Have mechanisms like democratization really fostered an enduring trend of peaceful co-existence, or is this just a statistical fluke—a normal interlude of relative calm before another global-scale conflagration?