E-Discovery Meets Moravec’s Paradox

After chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov was defeated by a machine – it took the second generation of IBM’s Deep Blue to do it – he came back years later with a kind of advanced chess that teamed a human with a computer system and largely prevailed against even the most advanced software systems. But there was a bigger surprise in the same tournament, a manifestation of what’s known in information science as Moravec’s Paradox, writes Michael Simon, co-founder of Seventh Samurai and a Today’s General Counsel columnist. What happened says a lot about the present and future of e-discovery.