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Also, the technology employed by social media platforms like [[LinkedIn]] to save you the bother of composing your own unctuous endorsements of people you once met at a [[business day convention]] and who have just posted about the wild old time they've had at a [[panel discussion]] on the operational challenges of regulatory reporting under the [[securities financing transactions regulation]].

Is that, for all the wishful thinking ([[blockchain]]! [[chatbot|chatbots]]!) the “[[artificial intelligence]]” behind reg-tech at the moment just ''isn't very good''. Oh, they'll talk a great game about “natural language parsing” and “tokenised [[distributed ledger technology]]” and so on, but bear in mind that what is going on behind the hood is little more than a sophisticated visual basic macro. A lot of the magic of the world-wide web really isn’t, technologically, that sophisticated. Information retrieval is really a no more than devising a basic metadata schema and hey — even muggins like the [[Jolly Contrarian]] can do that (how do you think this wiki works?). Actually parsing natural language and doing that contextual, experiential thing of knowing that, ''yadayadayda [[boilerplate]] but '''whoa''' hold on, tiger we’re not having '''that''''' isn’t the kind of thing a startup with a .php manual and a couple of web developers can develop on the fly. So expect [[proof of concept|proofs of concept]] that work ok on a  pre-configured [[confidentiality agreement]] in the demo, but will be practically useless on the general weft and warp of the legal agreements you actually encounter in real life — as prolix, unnecessary and randomly drafted as they are.

More particularly, why [[artificial intelligence]] won’t be sounding the death knell to the [[Legal eagle|legal profession]] any time soon. Because Computer language isn’t nearly as rich as human language. It doesn't have any tenses, for one thing. In this spurious fellow’s opinion tenses, narratising as they do a spatio-temporal continuity of existence that we have known since the time of [[David Hume]] cannot be deduced or otherwise justified on logical grounds, is the special sauce of consciousness, self-awareness, and therefore intelligence. If you don’t have a conception of your self as a unitary, thinking thing, though the past, at present and into the future, then you have no need to plan for the future or learn lessons from the past. You can’t narratise.