In any society, it is up to the elite to deal with and enforce the law. This is because it is a complex and noble act that must be executed in accordance with justice while understanding all the customs and cultures, ideologies and values of society.
However, in this area of law, a wind of change is blowing recently. AI (artificial intelligence), which has overwhelming analytical ability, is showing its presence. The ‘1st Legal Artificial Intelligence Alpha Law Contest’ held at the Seocho-dong Bar Hall in August 2019 was a great place to show the trend of this era.
In the competition where AI lawyers, human lawyers, and the general public participated in pairs, the’human lawyer-AI lawyer’ combination took first and second place side by side. The general public who did not major in law also ranked third with the help of AI attorneys, and it is said that AI attorneys have proven their ability.
Then, will AI replace the world for lawyers and judges? Lim Young-ik, CEO of Intellicon Research Institute, is the person who can answer these questions most clearly. Intellicon Research Institute, a legal tech company, developed the AI lawyer’Contract Intelligent Analyzer (CIA)’ who participated in the competition with Alpha. I heard about the implications and future prospects of legal AI from Lim, who has been conducting legal AI research for a long time.
Young-ik Lim, CEO of Intellicon Research Institute, has been studying the convergence of law and AI for a long time. Originally a biologist, he was studying brain science in the United States, but this is a unique case of entering the path of AI. Ⓒ Intellicon Lab
“Ai, the king of the end of document reading… The actual book is also useful”
“The whole world is difficult with Corona 19. The Intellicon Research Institute also had a difficult year.” This is because interest in the AI system developed by Intellicon Research Institute has increased rapidly as the era of non-face-to-face has opened.
Legal AI, which CEO Lim has been developing for a long time, is literally a technology that combines law and AI. The history is so long that research has already begun from 1956 when AI was born, but it is a relatively recent story that has attracted attention as an industry. Regarding’Legaltech’, Lim briefly explained, “All the technologies that implement AI lawyers, AI judges, etc., from automated systems that help lawyers, are applied.” It was presented as an example.
“In a word, you can think of the CIA as’the king of the end of document reading.’ It’s especially useful in practice because it automatically analyzes the risk clauses in contracts and quickly finds missing clauses. Already, the US and Europe are fiercely competing to develop such contract analytics AI, and large investments are being made.”
Fascinated by artificial neural networks while studying brain science… After developing legal AI
The use of such legal AI is expected to be more spotlighted in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. Lim, who was originally a biologist, is a unique case of entering the path of AI while studying brain science in the United States.
“In fact, I didn’t like AI that much. However, the artificial neural network I experienced while studying the human brain was a big shock to me. After that, I opened my eyes to the usefulness of AI.”
AI, with its overwhelming analytical ability, is quietly revealing its presence in the realm of law. The key to legal AI is understanding language like humans. Ⓒ Intellicon Lab
Since then, Lim’s dream, who passed the bar exam in 2009 for the development of legal AI, and went through the preparation process, took shape from 2013 in earnest. At that time, CEO Lim, who started research with experts from various fields such as mathematics, physics, and computers, grew through a lot of trial and error in order to apply AI to the highly specialized knowledge of law.
“AI and law are areas of expertise, so understanding both is very difficult. From the earliest days of the research institute, we have established the theory of legal informatics and computational law that combine these two fields, and recently, we are working hard to cultivate converging talents.”
Thanks to these efforts, Intellicon Research Institute’s legal AI was quickly recognized for its technology. CEO Lim said, “The legal reasoning system’i-Lis-7′ has also won the world legal AI competition for two consecutive years (2016, 2017). “It is a great achievement to confirm that our technology is also competitive. ”Said.
“Natural language processing is the key… You can also recommend laws as if you were searching.”
What is the core technology of legal AI that has been recognized for its performance, such as Iris-7 and CIA? According to Lim, it is “to understand language like humans.”
“This is commonly referred to as’natural language processing’. It’s literally a concept that machines process human language (natural language).”
The reason why such natural language processing is important is that most of the legal AI is connected to the technology of searching or analyzing legal documents.
Representative Lim said, “As the next step in natural language processing, we need to be able to map laws or precedents governing specific cases.” “If you enter a question in everyday terms into the online search box, you can understand such a question legally as search results come out. It is also possible to infer and recommend related laws.”
Based on these research achievements, Intellicon Research Institute is currently providing various legal AI services such as’Legal Mecca’, a legal QA platform, and’U-LEX’, an AI searcher that automatically recommends laws and regulations down to clauses.
“Replacement of human lawyers is a distant future”
If so, could AI developed in this way replace humans? Representative Lim clearly drew a line about this. “The situation in which AI replaces human lawyers is impossible, or it is in the distant future.” On the contrary, he presented a blueprint that humans and AI can complement each other to create a better future.
Rep. Lim replied that AI is “impossible or in the far future” about the situation where AI replaces human lawyers. It is a view that humans and AI will create a better future through complementary complementation. Ⓒ gettyimagesbank
“If computers surpass humans in retrieving and analyzing data, humans lead the way in comprehensive reasoning based on the interaction of various intelligences. After all, legal AI is positioning itself as a system that supports human work.”
It is known that the participants of the actual Alfaro contest benefited greatly from the CIA’s rapid search and analysis capabilities. It took only 7 seconds for the CIA to analyze the contract at the on-site demonstration after the competition.
“Pursuing the public interest through legal services through AI”
Meanwhile, legal AI is also of great significance in terms of public interest. It is predicted that a world will come where not only legal experts such as lawyers, but also ordinary citizens will benefit from machines.
“What if we combined AI with public legal services provided by public institutions or governments? Even if we only apply very simple AI, it will be more helpful to citizens.”
According to Lim, it is the stage of reconfiguring various practical systems that have already been completed so that public institutions and companies can use them. He said, “There are various plans in the future, including the export of legal AI to Japan, along with the aforementioned’free legal services for the public good’.” Revealed.
“One of my favorite phrases is the words of late Chairman Jung Ju-young of Hyundai Group,’If there is no adventure, there will be no big progress.’ In addition to combining law and AI, we will try to converge AI and other fields in the future to create innovative educational content and systems.”
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