Is this the end of the overpaid lawyer? Now that Ross exists, it may very well be. The computer system, which is based off of IBM’s Watson cloud platform and created by a team at the University of Toronto, can take any and all of your legal inquiries and spit out answers based on inputted data gleaned from legal documents, cases and statutes.

Ross is just one of the many ways that Watson is being used to better the world using big data. IBM, for one, is using the smart system to make better poutine, of all things. Oh, and it also taught chefs new recipes at SXSW. We’re starting to detect a trend…

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