Tag: AI
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A Futurist’s View: US Likely to Lose in the Battle Over AI, Robotics, & Eventually Quantum Computing
The United States is in a sticky wicket. Unfortunately, the US is rapidly losing its grip as leader on many fronts compared to our peers around the world in technology and infrastructure. I have witnessed it firsthand while traveling in Asia, Europe, and across the Americas. Now the data is starting to bear this out.…
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Vibe Coding Is Here
The time has come. Vibe coding is the new “thang” in the world of app development, and pretty much anyone can participate. Anyone can create disruptive apps in moments. I’ve been pushing the narrative of platforms and low-code, no-code solutions for many years. This next phase is mind-bending. Every day I encounter a new AI…
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Tech-Savvy Lawyering: Non-AI Trends You Need to Know
Written for the ABA Center for Innovation End of Year Report By Joseph Raczynski In the ever-evolving landscape of LegalTech, the past year has seen advancements that are reshaping how law firms both practice and operate. For small and medium-sized law firms, staying ahead of these trends is crucial not only for maintaining competitiveness, but…
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Exploring the AI Vanguard: Top 50 Companies Shaping 2024
Artificial intelligence continues to rewrite the rules of innovation in 2024. From healthcare breakthroughs to generative art revolutions, the top 50 AI companies of the year exemplify the transformative power of technology. In reviewing the WriterBuddy article, several key themes emerge—illustrating not just who leads the charge, but why their strategies, funding prowess, and technological…
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Hitting the Trifecta for AGI: A Journey Toward Artificial General Intelligence
AGI is likely around the corner. We need to mentally prepare for it. Here are three avenues as I see this unfold. Recently at a talk in Boston, I walked through these concepts with the audience. Quick Step Back: The adult brain has approximately 100 billion neurons, it orchestrates over 100 trillion connections—far outstripping the…
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“Digital Content Authentication” – MIT EmTech Digital Conference
In today’s digital age, the authenticity of online content is more critical than ever. With the rise of deepfakes, manipulated media, and synthetic content, ensuring the transparency and trustworthiness of what we see and hear online has become a paramount concern. Mounir Ibrahim, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact at Truepic, addressed this…
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OpenAI’s New GPT-4o Allows Voice and Video in the Same Model
What’s New? OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of “Omnimodel” or multimodal AI model that you can simply communicate with in real time in a live voice conversation. There is also the ability to use video streams from your phone or computer and text. Impressively, the model will be free for all users through…
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The Future of Geopolitics and the Role of Innovation and Technology
Washington, D.C., Walter E. Washington Convention Center – In the whirlwind world of technology and geopolitics, the recent panel discussion on “The Future of Geopolitics and the Role of Innovation and Technology” offered a fascinating blend of perspectives from esteemed experts, including Alex Karp, Cofounder and CEO, Palantir; David S. Cohen, Deputy Director Central Intelligence…
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The AI Film Festival Dubai
In advance of the AI Film Festival hosted by Expo City Dubai, where I will serve as a judge and panelist, I wanted to share some videos that we filmed of my thoughts as a technologist and futurist. Before the videos, this is some background on the event. The Artificial Intelligence Film Festival (AIFF) is…
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Tech Snippets Today – Rob Scott – Chief Innovator – Monjour with Joseph Raczynski
It has been a moment since we stepped back into the LegalTech arena. Today, I am happy to have Rob Scott who is revolutionizing the field of technology law as Chief Innovator of Monjur, a pioneering venture with a laser focus on transforming legal services for IT services firms. The focus of our discussion was…
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2024 Top Level AI Predictions
As 2024 begins, I wish to set out some thoughts on what we might expect to come with the continued dominance of AI chatter in the ether. The tech titans of Silicon Valley are all in, clearly betting their chips on the dream of generative AI transforming into a goldmine. This will happen, but when? …
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Yes, AI has Made THE Leap!
For the past decade, I have been consistently extolling the virtues and concerns of the impending “Exponential Technology” era. Well, it’s here. The first manifestation of this was OpenAI’s DALL-E product, which I encountered at an MIT conference in April 2022. DALL-E 2 is a website that allows users to type in concepts or phrases…
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ABA Center for Innovation – Trends Report 2022
Happy to have played a small role in this report with sections on: Defining a Legal Platform What is an API in the Legal Industry AI – Artificial Intelligence in Legal What is the Metaverse and Why it is Important The Innovation Trends Report will focus on case studies in three areas: Internal ABA Innovations,…
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Podcast: The Hearing – Andrew Fletcher, Director at Thomson Reuters Labs
Lots of fun this week on The Hearing Podcast with my colleague Andrew Fletcher, Director at the Thomson Reuters Labs. If you enjoy uncovering what the future (and the now) of the legal industry might look like, take a listen. We toss aside the fluff, and meet at the cross section of AI, APIs, Design…
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LegalWeek 2020: Leveraging AI to Combat Financial Crimes
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski NEW YORK — With increasing data flow among global financial institutions expanding, compounded by newly minted hybrid financial organizations in FinTech, managing these highly regulated transactions is progressively more complicated. A panel at last week’s LegalWeek 2020 explored the anti-money laundering (AML) trends in 2020, discussed the…
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Justice for all? The impact of AI & blockchain on legal accessibility
Originally published on AnswersOn By Joseph Raczynski I have been incredibly fortunate to have traveled extensively, which has impacted my global vision. Visiting almost 40 countries, I have witnessed firsthand the enormous discrepancies in wealth, opportunities, and lifestyles that exist around the world today. I’ve seen the lavish gilded rooms, complete with Picassos on the…
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The 4th Annual Government Day: The Reality and Skepticism of Innovation and Blockchain
Originally published on the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Government sector strives to ramp up its efforts to more widely integrate cutting edge technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT), it is running into a myriad of challenges. Not the least among them, is separating the…
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Artificial Intelligence and the UK vs. US Approach
Originally published on Legal Insights UK & Ireland By Joseph Raczynski, edits, questions and preface by Ann Lundin and Joe Davis. Artificial intelligence will threaten most jobs at some point soon—and new jobs will emerge’ The impact of innovative technology is undoubtedly going to radically reshape the delivery of legal services in the years ahead. To…
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Podcast: The Hearing With Kevin Poulter & Joseph Raczynski – Future Legal
Episode 2 of THE HEARING is now live! In episode 2 of The Hearing Podcast Kevin Poulter speaks to futurist Joseph Raczynski on #legaltech #AI #blockchain and the future of the robot lawyer. Listen now and subscribe to #thehearingpodcast on: iTunes – https://tmsnrt.rs/2swyzmz Spotify – https://tmsnrt.rs/2kOOpVw SoundCloud – https://tmsnrt.rs/2Js4deI
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MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain Busts Open New Thinking
By Joseph Raczynski Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab – Cambridge MA – October 2017 – In one of the more unique and unusual conferences I have participated, the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain was a meeting of 200 minds from across academia, law firm, and corporations big and small. It included IBM Watson as…
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Legal Technology/Internet 4.0 – How will Legal Technology Change the Industry?
By Joseph Raczynski INSOL Europe 2017 Annual Congress Warsaw INSOL Conference – Joseph Raczynski Warsaw, Poland – Sofitel Victoria. Before the full contingent of 400 attendees at the INSOL Europe Annual Congress a panel of three stepped into the future of legal technology and its impact on insolvency and the courts in Europe. The panel…
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Podcast: The Legal Implications of Autonomous Vehicle Technology with Akerman’s Gail Gottehrer (Part 1)
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth & Gail Gottehrer In a new two-part Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute podcast, Joe Raczynski, Legal Technologist and Futurist with Thomson Reuters Legal, discusses the hot topic of autonomous vehicles and their impact on the legal industry with attorney Gail Gottehrer, partner at…
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Emerging Technology in the Legal Industry (Video)
By Joseph Raczynski In this Vlog, learn about Emerging Technology in the Legal industry. I focus on the impact of the Trinity of Forces (Cloud, Infinite Processing Power and AI) on Emerging Technology in the Legal industry. The Emerging Technologies discussed are: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Analytics, VR/MR/AR (Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality) and…
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Is Virtual Reality Finally Ready for Business Use?
Originally published on Practice Innovations By Joseph Raczynski “It’s like dreaming with your eyes open” – VR Developer We are rapidly entering a time where space – the distance between people – will have little relevance. Even at this moment, distance is verging on extraneous. A news story breaks in Tokyo and seconds later a…
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ILTACON 2016: Re-Imagining Legal Technology for the 21st Century
So reverberated the words of Mike Walsh a Futurist/CEO of Tomorrow, across an audience of more than 3,000 legal professionals at ILTACON 2016, a four-day conference that centers on the intersection of technology and the legal industry.
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Law Firm of the Future – The Trinity of Forces: Infinite Processing Power, Memory, and Machine Learning
By Joseph Raczynski In ten years, it is predicted that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist1. This forecast originally cited in Fast Company is from a Babson Olin School of Business study. This notion is nearly incomprehensible, but may have a significant impact on the legal business. Why is this happening…
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Exponential Growth—The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 2
By Joseph Raczynski Over the course of the next several years I predict that many law firms will begin hiring data scientist. In my previous post Exponential Growth – The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 1 I discussed how our current data explosion threatens experts at law firms but could…
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The Next Legal Era: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing
By Joseph Raczynski We are on the cusp of a new era in computer technology. What could possibly connect rapid automated legal decisions; systematized stack ranked medical diagnosis, and never created scrumptious food recipes? At the IBM Cloud Innovation Forum in Dana Point CA, Mike Rhodin SVP of IBM Watson connected the three with a…