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AI & Law: Tech-Hype Curves
by Dr. Lance B. Eliot
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Key briefing points about this article:
- Tech-Hype curves showcase which tech is being over-hyped and which tech is settling in
- Each year the Gartner Group releases iterations of their famous Tech-Hype curves
- Recent AI & Law advances were categorized by Gartner’s latest LegalTech hype curve
- Upcoming are legal chatbots, third-party risk management, AI in legal practices, etc.
- But some AI & Law tech efforts are predicted as doomed, others are on verge of a reboot
Introduction
To get any media attention these days, it seems that sometimes being egregiously overboard and making nearly laughably exaggerated claims is the only way to rise above the fray.
This especially happens in the tech field and particularly in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ostensibly, each new AI system is proclaimed as the absolute incarnation of human cognition and heralded as the final arrival of computer-based…