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Co-operation between machines and humans - the secret to success for machine learning? One of the largest barriers that must be overcome by a business looking to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into their current workflows is ensuring the co-operation between machines and humans or else the technology is destined to fail.  Whether it... Design thinking - listen to your user... but not too much! I recently had the opportunity to attend a session on design thinking led by Treehouse Innovation. Design thinking is an innovation methodology which can be used to generate innovative solutions to challenges. In a legal context, it can be applied to chal... Should lawyers learn to code? Over the last few months there has been a lot of speculation about whether or not lawyers should learn to code, with some advocates predicting that all lawyers will be coders in the not too distant future. Whilst I have no doubt that the lawyers of the fu... Veil of ignorance - London Law Expo 2018 To design the law firm of the future, we should adopt a "veil of ignorance" - or so argues Dr Heather Anson.  Anson, speaking at the London Law Expo (an annual event with exhibitors and speakers from across the legal tech world), suggests that too often l... Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach an AI to recognise a fish... ... and you enable a man to feed thousands more. The story that a Norwegian company has developed a scanner capable of recognising salmon by their faces (more specifically, "the distinct pattern of spots around their eyes, mouth and gills") and of identif...