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Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by muraiki on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:22PM (#11771915)
An attorney friend of mine told me that discovery is being affected by this. Instead of having a team of higher level attorneys supervise a team of lower level attorneys (and maybe paralegals also) sorting through tons of papers in discovery, those high level attorneys train an algorithm on what documents are of particular interest from a small subset of them all (creating the training set) and then they let the algo do the work.

An anesthesiologist friend of mine went back and got his MBA because he's certain that machines will dramatically reduce the amount of jobs for anesthesiologists; you'll have one anesthesiologist supervising X machines instead of X anesthesiologists.

Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by anigbrowl on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:27PM (#11772401)
Quite true; my wife works in e-discovery and much more of her work is in normalizing messy data sets than doing the discovery itself.
Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by hugh4 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:02PM (#11772649)
Oh, I'm sure that lawyers will be the last to go. They make the rules, after all.
Re:Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots' by milcron on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:13PM (#11772706)
Are you sure?

    Artificial intelligence was now out-performing the capabilities of junior
    lawyers and paralegals in due diligence, discovery and document drafting.
    Upcoming predictive analytics would be able to assess the outcome of court
    cases while legal diagnostics systems analysed legal problems and provided
    advice.
http://www.afr.com/business/legal/robolawyers-of-the-future-...