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}}“Perfection is the enemy of good enough.” Easy enough for Voltaire to say, apparently impossible for anyone to understand when contemplating the potential for [[reg tech]] to assist the — ahh, [[Legal services delivery|“''delivery''” of “legal services”]]. In a nutshell, if you think | : — Voltaire}}[[It’ll do]]. “Perfection is the enemy of good enough.” | ||
And do we have before us one of those [[paradox]]es of management? For at the same time we say, “be realistic about your aspiration to perfection”, we also say, “it is all about quality”. So what’s with the [[quality|quality versus perfection]] trade-off? | |||
===Voltaire and [[reg tech]]=== | |||
Easy enough for Voltaire to say, apparently impossible for anyone to understand when contemplating the potential for [[reg tech]] to assist the — ahh, [[Legal services delivery|“''delivery''” of “legal services”]]. In a nutshell, if you think that [[AI]] will any time soon be replacing lawyers wholesale and putting the profession out of a job, you are going to be disappointed for a ''very'' long time. Don’t forget the [[JC]]’s {{t|maxim}}: [[reg tech can remain disappointing longer than you can remain animate]].<ref>With apologies to John Maynard Keynes and his aphorism: “the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”</ref> | |||
If, however, you look at [[AI]] as a tool to ''quickly'' knock out the easy stuff — fix the formatting, spot that the governing law is not English, word-search for '''<indemn*>''' — while recognising that you, kind sir, still have a role reading the agreement to pick out the ''hard stuff'' — then you may expect years of trouble-free motoring. | If, however, you look at [[AI]] as a tool to ''quickly'' knock out the easy stuff — fix the formatting, spot that the governing law is not English, word-search for '''<indemn*>''' — while recognising that you, kind sir, still have a role reading the agreement to pick out the ''hard stuff'' — then you may expect years of trouble-free motoring. | ||
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*The [[Multiverse]] | *The [[Multiverse]] | ||
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