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| A pair of excellent E-Courts presenters |
Just two quick notes. First, the next E-Courts Conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from December 7-9, 2020 at the MGM Grand Hotel which is a huge property. My suggestion is to first mark your calendar and then start shopping and breaking in your walking shoes. You will need them!
Second, the Ars Technica website posted an article titled “A sobering message about the future at AI’s biggest party”. The article comes from the “world’s leading academic AI Conference, NeurIPS”. A researcher that I have immense respect for, Blaise Aguera y Arcas “praised the revolutionary technique known as deep learning” but went future to say:
“Deep learning has rapidly knocked down some longstanding challenges in AI—but doesn’t immediately seem well suited to many that remain. Problems that involve reasoning or social intelligence, such as weighing up a potential hire in the way a human would, are still out of reach, he said. “All of the models that we have learned how to train are about passing a test or winning a game with a score [but] so many things that intelligences do aren’t covered by that rubric at all.”The full article is a worthwhile read.
In Pakistan, we can envisage the adoption of technology in Courts, using AI and big data concepts, as the frequency of litigation, variety of issues that Courts have to address, and the state of governance that is yet evolving, demand that the justice sector should gradually adopt the advancing technologies applicable in Court environment. The Courts world over have the opinion that whoever adopts technology at a later stage, would be lagging behind in efficiency and quality of service delivery; similarly, those who realise the significance of technology in Courts of today and those in future, and prepare themselves through infrastructure and equipped Human Resource to fully adopt technology, would sustain the influx of advancing technologies in all other sectors of society and governance. Moreover, they have to show readiness through appropriate legislation akin with advancing technologies and big data tools and concepts data sciences. We should appreciate that the Singapore judiciary is at present, leading the world nations through innovation and technology.
ReplyDeleteData analytics should analyse the big data carrying multi-field, multi-layered and customised data, and it should be able to guide the policy makers in the justice sector, and then to assess the quality of governance; most of the litigation emerges due to administrative actions and governance issues that basically would have been avoided, had there been consistent and equitable application of laws, procedures and the processes. This kind of research would benefit from data analytics to curtail the litigation trends, and otherwise recurrence of allied issues.
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