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Tim Hwang predicts AI models will enable automated 'high-frequency litigation'

Tim Hwang · Tim Hwang, FiscalNote // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Jan 16, 2014 · at 17:51

Tim Hwang, co-founder and CEO of FiscalNote, answers an audience question about extending FiscalNote's predictive analytics framework to trial law and litigation outcomes.

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“In the future we might have something like, ah, high frequency litigation, and that's, I don't think that's too far from the truth in terms of being able to understand and, ah, predict these types of outcomes based off of, ah, past datasets.”

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