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5 posted on 12/04/2018 8:02:29 PM PST by KittenClaws ("They've got Daryl's Dad's car! .....Red Dawn)
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From Q’s link: The only meeting on the 5th that wasn’t postponed was a Hearing: Department of Defense’s Artificial Intelligence Structure, Investments, and Applications.

On the 6th, the only one not rescheduled is a Hearing: National Defense Strategy Commission: Assessment and Recommendations.

337 posted on 12/5/2018, 6:50:46 AM by Melian (Check yourself before you kek yourself. ~ Melian)
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INTRO - AI In the Law

Posting behind and blind as the proverbial bat!

I ran across this link several days ago on a search for something else. Perhaps it could apply to this little nugget you just cited, Melian. It is about “Artificial Intelligence in the Law.”

https://higgsjohnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FOCUS-Q1-18.pdf

Artificial Intelligence in the Law
Delivered at the Higgs & Johnson 2017 Annual Client Seminar
By Kendrick Knowles

H&JFOCUS • April2018

[The H&J Focus appears to be the law firm’s newsletter]

"At the 2017 Firm seminar, Weathering a Changing Climate, we discussed the opportunity, myths and reality of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the legal profession. We concluded that, far from being a threat to the replacement of lawyers with robots, AI presents a unique opportunity for legal professionals to not only improve the quality of their legal advice but also to boost overall efficiency to the benefit of both clients and professionals alike.

In a nutshell, AI can be appropriately viewed as advanced computing, merely leveraged as a tool that can enable lawyers to find the right answers even more quickly and apply those answers as necessary…"

*texokie had thought this would be a short little hole to dig, but discovers as she reads, that she is REALLY curious about some of the leads spread out in front of her like a Bugs Bunny carrot smorgasbord.*

THE SERIES CAN BE FOUND AS REPLIES TO THIS THREAD’S POST 5

(As I post this, I’m not sure how many parts there are.)

END INTRO

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917 posted on 12/05/2018 5:45:15 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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PART ONE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE LAW

Delivered at the Higgs and Johnson 2017 Annual Client Seminar
By Kendrick Knowles
H&J Focus
April 2018

Taking up the quoting of the article, begun in the previous introduction:

https://higgsjohnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FOCUS-Q1-18.pdf

“…For over 50 years, standard computing has always been focused on accuracy and calculation. However, AI improves upon this by adding cognitive machine learning to language and text, thereby answering even the toughest questions before they are asked.”

“Where does the Legal Professional fit in all of this?”

“The lawyer, law student and law firm can all benefit from this technology in the same way we have benefited from other technological advancements like the use of email, increased cyber security and video conferencing. The key to taking advantage of new and emerging technology is to be aware of its existence and its benefits.”

“How can AI be used today practically?
AI has already been in use for some time in the business of law. Law firms that have taken a proactive step toward cyber security have already used AI to predict and prevent computer virus patterns by using advanced AI algorithms in antivirus software. AI has also been used to prevent threats among computer networks between offices that communicate together. We expect that in The Bahamas AI will take a more central role in the operational side of law by answering search queries about case law and court decisions in a minute rather than through hours or days of manual searching.”

“What does this mean for billing?”

[ALWAYS A CRITICAL CONCERN, texokie is given to understand! - the article continues:]

“Central to the discussion of AI is the issue of client billing and whether the
hourly rate would increase due to the machine learning advantage of the legal task or whatever the overall cost would decrease due to less time being used by humans to find the correct answer. All of this has yet to be determined as the variables involved with billing and attorney client work are considerable and extend beyond the mere answering of questions.

“Will the future eventually move toward machine lawyers?”

“The truth is that technology has always proved challenging to any industry. In some cases, it has replaced human work force, for instance, in auto and product manufacturing. However, the Legal Profession as an industry is unique and built by and for – people - real individuals who need to use empathy, compassion, love, drive, commitment and measured generosity – qualities that machines despite their processing speed, cannot replace. No one can predict the future for sure, but we can state for certain that the only way that technology has ever helped humanity is when we commit to learning and growing with it. AI as a technological advancement is like a wave - we cannot stop, it so we must first observe it, then resign to ride it toward the shores of our passions and goals.”

“ the only way that technology has ever helped humanity is when we commit to learning and growing with it. AI as a technological advancement is like a wave - we cannot stop, it so we must first observe it, then resign to ride it toward the shores of our passions and goals.”

* Texokie muses on what she’s just read: The message seems to be : “Inevitability.” “ Live with it.” “ Adjust.” “ Can’t stop it.” “We/you may not like it, but it is the new normal.” This is definitely the kind of language the Globalists use about WHATEVER they want to cram down our throats.*

*She pauses on the tailings of her dig so far and prepares to go further. Melian definitely snagged her with this one.*

END PART ONE

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924 posted on 12/05/2018 6:03:26 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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PART TWO

AI IN THE LAW
HIGGS AND JOHNSON

WHO/WHAT IS THE FIRM, HIGGS & JOHNSON COUNSEL & ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW?

https://higgsjohnson.com

They are in the Cayman Islands and Bahamas.

HISTORY?

https://higgsjohnson.com/about/history/

They were founded in 1948 by Hon. Godfrey W. Higgs, CBE, and Mr. Mervyn Johnson, former Registrar General of The Bahamas. Mr Higgs is most noted for his defense in 1943 of Canadian gold baron Sir Harry Oakes’s accused murderer.

WHOA!!! A WHODUNNIT!!!
OK: Side tunnel in the dig - because we want to KNOW!:

Who was Harry Oakes?

Well, for one, he had a well known house in Nassau which had been built in 1840.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sir+harry+oakes+house+in+nassau&t=osx&ia=web

Moving on:

From his Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Oakes

“Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (23 December 1874 – 7 July 1943) was an American-born British Canadian gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned his fortune in Canada and in the 1930s moved to the Bahamas for tax purposes, where he was murdered in 1943 in notorious circumstances. The cause of death and the details surrounding it have never been entirely determined, and have been the subject of several books and four films….”

SNIP

“…In 1898, Oakes left medical school before graduation and made his way to Alaska at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in hopes of making his fortune as a prospector. For 15 years, he sought gold around the world from California to Australia.

Oakes arrived in Kirkland Lake in Northern Ontario, Canada on 19 June 1911. In 1912, he struck gold there….”

SNIP

“Oakes was murdered sometime after midnight on July 8, 1943. He was struck four times behind the left ear with a miner’s hand pick and was then burned all over his body using insecticide, with the flames being concentrated around the eyes. His body was then sprinkled with feathers from a mattress. When Oakes was discovered, the feathers were still being gently blown over his body by the bedroom fan.“

Oakes’ Wiki page has a generous listing of very notable connections, including his daughter, Nancy, who also had a daughter [and other children]:
Patricia Luisa Oakes (born 1951), who married Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (1914–1988) in 1977 with whom she had one son before divorcing in 1981.

About Nancy Oakes:

(1925-2005), who in 1942 married Count Alfred de Marigny (1910–1998) at the age of 18. They separated in 1945 and divorced in 1949. She later had a longstanding relationship with British actor Richard Greene (1918–1985), with whom she had a daughter. In 1952, she married Baron Ernst Lyssardt von Hoyningen-Huene with whom she had one son before their divorce in 1956…”

So Nancy had married the man who was later accused of Oake’s murder.

Continuing our study of the Wiki page on Oakes, in the section discussing the investigation of his murder:

“…When Nancy was informed of her father’s death and her husband’s arrest, she was in Miami on her way for the summer to study dance with Martha Graham at Bennington, Vermont. It was her great friend Merce Cunningham who gave her the bad news. She then traveled to Bar Harbor, Maine, the family’s summer home, to join her mother, at her husband’s request. But Nancy soon returned to Nassau and began to organize her husband’s defence. She was convinced that de Marigny was innocent and stood by him when many others, including her family, believed him guilty. The young countess soon became a favourite with the press worldwide for her auburn hair, deep-set eyes, fine figure and mild resemblance to Katharine Hepburn.

The murder managed to knock the war off the front pages temporarily. Nancy spent heavily to hire a leading American private investigator, Raymond Schindler, to dig deeply into the case, and a prominent British-trained Bahamian lawyer, Godfrey W. Higgs, to defend her husband. They eventually found serious flaws in the prosecution’s case…”

The story is interesting, if not quite on point to our dig about AI. The rest can be found at the above Wiki page link. We have learned a bit about the consummate skill as a lawyer which Higgs brought to bear in that case.

What in the world did the man do to make someone so angry? The Wiki page indicates that the murder has never been solved.

Nancy and her husband were friends with Ernest Hemingway. She and acquitted hubby went and stayed with him in Cuba …. because:

“De Marigny was deported to Cuba after a recommendation by the murder trial’s jury, because of his supposedly unsavoury character and frequent advances towards young girls in the Bahamas. De Marigny and Nancy separated in 1945, and divorced in 1949….”

We find that she could be fodder for a HOLLYWOOD CONNECTED dig later, for Nancy moved there in the 1950s and had a daughter with Richard Greene, who among other films, was the star of tv series “Adventures of Robin Hood.”

*Good grief! Texokie did not expect this dig to take her THERE! But the focus of this dig really isn’t Hollywood, and so she pulls her eyes away from that beckoning dig to continue to see what she can learn about the HIGGS and JOHNSON LAW FIRM.*

END PART TWO

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933 posted on 12/05/2018 6:33:24 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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PART THREE
AI IN THE LAW
HIGGS AND JOHNSON - WHO ARE THEY???
Corporate History and Activities/Practices

Returning to the “About” page from their web site,

https://higgsjohnson.com/about/history/

we learn that Mr. Geoffrey Johnstone (later Sir Geoffrey) joins the outfit in 1950, and became senior partner in 1968.

Another company “Truman Bodden & Company” joins the Higgs and Johnson in 1990, forming TerraLex (a leading worldwide network of independent law firms).

The page tells about the opening of various offices in the world over the years. 2008 marked the 60th year of the firm.

In 2009 the merged group readjusted so that
“…ownership interests of Truman Bodden & Company and Higgs & Johnson of The Bahamas. Higgs & Johnson remains the operating platform in The Bahamas for the merged group.” They rebranded from “HIGGS JOHNSON TRUMAN BODDEN & CO to HIGGS AND JOHNSON in 2010.

2018 is the 70th year of the firm.

What do they DO?

They proudly list their “Practices” as consisting of:

Aviation
Commercial Transactions
Company Formation and Management, Financial Services, Insurance Law and Regulation
Insolvency and Corporation Restructuring
Intellectual Property
Litigation
Maritime and Shipping
Private Client and Wealth Management
Real Estate and Development
Securities and Investment Funds

That seems to cover a LOT of ground and plenty of playgrounds for them to run in.

ATTORNEYS are listed here:

https://higgsjohnson.com/attorneys/

*All of that, admittedly is pretty dry information, but is necessary stuff to have in an exploration of who/what a company is. Texokie stifles a yawn and ponders the situation about where to go next. *

*There are so many leads here, but texokie works hard to master her desire to just go after random leads, and focuses on the attorney who wrote the article about Arificial Intelligence in the Law. Who is HE? It is one KENDRICK KNOWLES*

*Sitting on a growing pile of tailings from her dig so far. Cold and squirming because of some sharp corners poking her behind, she takes out her extra sweater which Mother of Dragons (and Dragonlets) lovingly cajoled her into packing. [Why is MoD (aD) always RIGHT???] Her water bottle follows, along with the bag of fresh sammiches, sliced bell peppers, an apple and (my goodness!) a small ziplock with some of Mother of Dragons (and Dragonlets’) cookies. Refreshed, she resumes digging.*

END PART THREE

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942 posted on 12/05/2018 6:48:47 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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PART FOUR
AI IN THE LAW
HIGGS AND JOHNSON - WHO ARE THEY???
KENDRICK KNOWLES

*texokie wields her trusty little spade and notices that the blisters from previous months have now turned into protective calluses. It is not quite so challenging to dig as it was. She is surprised at the first thing to turn up:*

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=150791

While this particular Kendrick Knowles shows at the link to have been born in the Bahamas in 1988, and is a “Candidate Master,” another source shows that there are at least 3 known “Kendrick Knowles” in the Bahamas. It was not in this reporter’s ability to access face book to try to figure out which of those three have ties to H&J.

Moving on:

https://higgsjohnson.com/?s=Kendrick+Knowles

*Texokie tears herself away from the fascinating world of High Powered Chess, and decides to go back to the H&J web site for more clues. She blinks behind her trifocals with surprise:*

Knowles is not actually listed as one of the “Attorneys” on the Attorneys page for the firm, but rather, seems to be the one responsible for hosting their Annual Client Seminars. Kendrick Knowles, who puts on the seminars for the H&J firm may or may not be an attorney....He might have legal background, in order to host those events and apparently to write at least portions of the newsletter. But he does not appear to be one of their shining stars.

Going back to the H&J web site:

https://higgsjohnson.com/?s=Kendrick+Knowles

The link to the FOCUS Vol. 62, Issue 1/2018 seems to have been pulled, for it no longer functions - at least not as this piece is being written.

Here is the link blurb to the article which we could have seen, if it were working:

“FOCUS Vol. 62, Issue 1/2018
Sham - To Be or Not to Be? A summary of the MezhProm Bank and the Pugachev Decision - Theominique Nottage Trusts in the Cayman Islands - Gina M. Berry Artificial Intelligence in the Law….”

So our Kendrick may NOT be the one involved in spearheading the H&J thrust into AI Law after all….. it seems to be Gina Berry, who DOES show up in connection with the articles on AI, as well as being prominent in the list of Attorneys.

The verbiage about “MezhProm Bank” etc. pertains to an entirely different article in the newsletter, having nothing to do with the AI topic which we are after. The new interest appears to be Gina Berry.

*texokie polishes her glasses, delighted to be able to side step from the intense legalese which appeared in her researches about the Mezhprom, etc. case. It was making her eyes glaze over into little shiny marbles. She finds she has intensely conflicting emotions, wondering why in the world she didn’t pursue study of the law…. and being highly relieved that she never did. She turns her focus on Gina Berry. Shovel in hand, texokie digs.*

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988 posted on 12/05/2018 7:49:00 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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PART FIVE

HIGGS AND JOHNSON - WHO ARE THEY???

GINA BERRY

https://higgsjohnson.com/person/gina-m-berry/

Gina M. Berry is listed as “Country Managing Partner.”

She works in several areas described on the above list of company practices found in Part Three.

“…. Gina represents many of the “Class A” Banks in the Cayman Islands and also conducts a full real estate practice servicing a wide range of international and local clients….”

SNIP

*Texokie rushes to find out exactly what a “Class A bank” might be:*

https://www.mybankinglicense.com/15470/what-bank-A-license/

“Class A banking license explained”

“A class A banking license allows the bank or financial institution to engage in banking activity with an unrestricted and undetermined list of clients offshore. The type of license a bank acquires determines the client base for the bank and who they will offer their services to. A class ‘A’ banking license will only allow the banking institution to offer their services offshore….”

Oh.

Returning to the information about Gina Berry:

“…Gina is Chair of the Human Tissue Transplant Council and sits on the Board of Directors of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands (CAAC). She is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society and the Caymanian Bar Association, and is a Notary Public for the Cayman Islands. Gina believes in giving back to her community and is a Life Member of the Lions Club of Tropical Gardens, where she is a Past President and currently serves on the Board of Directors. Additionally, she serves the Lions Caribbean Sub-District 60B as Hearing Preservation, Awareness & Action Chairman.…”

The following is the list given of her Community Involvement, which large corporations like to have employees tout:

Chair, Human Tissue Transplant Council (2018)
Director, Board of Directors of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands (2018)
Member, Steering Committee, Human Tissue Donation and Transplant Regulations (2017)
Life Member (Past President) Lions Club of Tropical Gardens & current Board member
District Officer of Lions Sub-District 60B (Hearing Preservation, Awareness & Action Chairman)

WAIT WHAT????

HUMAN TISSUE TRANSPLANT COUNCIL AND CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY?

Would most of you here in the Q-verse, Fags/ Fogs (with Long O), and FreeQs alike, agree with me that we have actually found a definite RED FLAG here? None of that Pink Flag stuff.

HUMAN TISSUE TRANSPLANT COUNCIL AND CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY?

And while those things do not seem to be related, to a Q-trained eye, we see a definite relationship between the Human Tissue Transplantation issue and the need to get those tissues transported to where they need to be, quietly and confidentially and quickly.

Hmmmmmm - just as pure speculation, how far exactly are the Caymans and Bahamas from Haiti? As the crow, (or civilian aviator) flies - not very far. And, not to forget, the Epstein Island is also probably not very far either.

*Being down in the hole so far, and finding that she has gotten so deep, her laptop can’t reach the wifi any more. So texokie does not look up the mileage, but assumes that the Caribbean Islands are all fairly well within reach of each other by air. She could be wrong, but this seems like a fair guesstimation*

*Free-associating with all the bits and pieces churning in her mind, Texokie recalls a bit of information about how the Globalists - including notably, Hillary Clinton - have been active for many years in the theft of technological developments. She was a Patents Lawyer at the Rose Law Firm.*

https://www.iplitigationcurrent.com/2016/10/11/hillary-clintons-ip-litigation-experience/

*The file that contained all of that data was lost when texokie’s computer crashed several months ago, so she cannot share the source of that data with the documentation of the long standing abuses of many of the power elite with respect to intellectual property, ...and greatly regrets it. Nevertheless, the Chinese are certainly carrying on with the tradition, as our POTUS has repeatedly pointed out. And we can’t forget Q’s drawing our attention to how the CIA basically stole/co-opted the basic research of many of the high tech algorithms used in the various social platforms*

*One of the items on H&J’s “Practices” List shows “Intellectual Property.” Likely that area would contain the Patent issues. Texokie could not find evidence of this kind of abuse by the H&J. Probably, because it would likely be couched in obscure legalese, which texokie would not recognize or understand, if it bit her like a rabid dog; it is just speculation.*

If it is true that Gina Berry is heavily into supporting the Globalist agenda of anti-human activity, would it be a very far step to speculate that she might be also heavily invested in promoting the more negative harmful aspects of AI? …..And could she be trying to figure out how to usher it in so that legal challenges to those negative aspects being deployed could be protected from attempts by the Patriots to mitigate harmful aspects? ….. And WHY did the company delete their 2018 article on “Artificial Intelligence In the Law” from their news letter links?….

And what OTHER globalist law firms might be beavering away at the same task: to lock us, the living, breathing human race, into a mortal fight with a potentially unemotional and relentless foe - seen so often portrayed in such movies as “2001: Space Odyssey,” and the “Terminator” series starring Globalist Arnold Schwarzenegger?

*Texokie, chilled not only by the cold winter and the temperature of the dark hole, and shaken by what she is seeing, gathers up her equipment and makes haste to make her way back to the surface, where she can go to the Qanteen and see her beloved FReeQs. She longs to sit in front of the cheerful fire to warm up, and then listen from under the Steinweigh to a magnificent rendition of “Chop Sticks” ….and pat and play with the Qanteen Dawgs and Qatz. Thank God for Q, Q+, and all our many loyal Patriots, and of course our FReeQs and Qanteen members - those whom we know on this thread, as well as our beloved Lurks*

RECOMMENDATION:
This firm, H&J, and many other big international law firms should probably have serious research attention placed on them by FReeQs, Anons, and others in the Qverse...especially with respect to their roles in High Technology Development and Artificial Intelligence.

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1,024 posted on 12/05/2018 8:37:47 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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