Law Firm Hires Artificially Intelligent Lawyer and Other Future Tech

Welcome to another day in science and technology news! We’ve got a lot of future tech articles lined up. Let’s get started.

Law Firm Hires Artificially Intelligent Lawyer

Social media and job seekers are worried that artificial intelligence will take over jobs performed by humans in the future. This future tech article might add to the paranoia. Baker & Hostetler LLP, an American law firm founded in 1916, is going to be the first company to license the ROSS platform (that is built upon IBM’s Watson technology) for “its Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights team.”

“Legal research is an expensive and time consuming process that affects your practice and your clients. ROSS is an artificially intelligent attorney to help you power through legal research. ROSS improves upon existing alternatives by actually understanding your questions in natural sentences,” the website says.

Bob Craig, CIO at BakerHostetler, believes this is revolutionize the way legal research is carried out at the company. "At Baker[ & ]Hostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients. We are proud to team up with innovators like ROSS and we will continue to explore these cutting-edge technologies as they develop."

Malawi to Fight HIV with Drones

On this blog, we’ve talked about firefighting sound drones and mind-controlled drones as well. One thing to note is the fact that drones are being used for purposes other than leisure. Partnering with UNICEF, the African nation of Malawi is testing the use of drones for HIV-testing in infants. HIV is very prevalent amongst children in the country, with 10,000 infant deaths each year.

“In 2014, nearly 40,000 children in Malawi were born to HIV positive mothers. Quality care of these children depends on early diagnosis, which requires taking dried blood samples from the health centre to the central laboratory for testing. We hope that UAVs can be part of the solution to reduce transportation time and ensure that children who need it, start their treatment early,” said Mahimbo Mdoe, a UNICEF representative in Malawi, “This innovation could be the breakthrough in overcoming transport challenges and associated delays experienced by health workers in remote areas of Malawi.”

Treating Paranoia with Virtual Reality

Researchers at Oxford University have shown, with tests on 30 patients suffering from persecutory delusions, that virtual reality devices help in overcoming the fear of social situations.

“Paranoia all too often leads to isolation, unhappiness, and profound distress. At the heart of paranoia is the unfounded belief that people are under threat. With virtual reality we can help the person to relearn that they are safe, and when they do that, the paranoia melts away. As these [virtual reality devices] become more affordable we will see them used not just in clinical settings, but in people’s homes.” says Professor Daniel Freeman, Clinical Psychologist at Oxford University and co-author of the study.

Read more at www.bit.ly/q3newsblog. Q3 Technologies is a large diversified technology company which develops custom software products for the healthcare industry including cloud applications, enterprise applications across all platforms and Rich Internet Applications (RIA).