I would put money on the legal profession being revolutionised (read: sped up) by machine-learning and AI (read: CPU cycles).
The ability to refer to any. case. ever. to provide a potentially watertight argument will be pretty hard to beat.
The ability to refer to any. case. ever. to provide a potentially watertight argument will be pretty hard to beat.
Maybe it could "augment" the lawyer's human intelligence, but as it stands, we would need real breakthroughs in the field of AI to actually do logical reasoning (and I'm not talking about black-and-white hardcoded Prolog).
If anything, contemporary AI tech could help perform diagnoses in the medical industry. Indeed, there are several deep learning startups tackling this problem. Diagnosing medical conditions is essentially a classification problem so you just need the right training data and a convnet.