AI & Law: Hybrid AI That Is Neuro-Symbolic

Impact of hybrid sub-symbolic and symbolic approaches on AI and the Law

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• The use of Machine Learning (ML) continues to gain ground, including in the legal profession
• Many wonder whether the future of AI is entirely pegged to further advances solely in ML
• Some predict ML will hit a proverbial wall, and that rules-based approaches will be reborn
• These two camps (often warring) are known as the sub-symbolic and the symbolic
• A hybrid AI also referred to as neuro-symbolic, might be the way forward, for the law too

Introduction

It seems that the expanding use of AI is nearly unstoppable and will just keep going on a full-steam-ahead basis. This includes the use of AI in the law and for the legal profession, increasingly showing up as either integrated into modern LegalTech or provided as an amplifier or augmentation to conventional LegalTech.