Use Of Artificial Intelligence In E-Discovery

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a new concept, with the term widely accepted to have entered popular us­age as early as 1955 when computer scientist (and AI founding father) John McCarthy coined it as part of his efforts to consolidate thinking and new ideas around 'thinking machines'. The following year, McCarthy and others organized the Dartmouth Summer Re­search Project on Artificial Intelligence, which is now considered to be the founding event in the field of AI.¹

There have been several AI Springs and Winters since then, with periods of rapid progress followed by cycles of reduced funding and interest. Experts now agree, however, that the age of AI 'hype cycles' may be over, as we transition globally into the so-called AI era, to­wards the irreversible integration of AI technology in everyday life and across an increasing number of eco­nomic sectors. This new era has largely been driven by the release of generative AI models, deep-learning models which