Tag Archive for: background check
How an Artificial Intelligence Asset Search Would Start (and Stall)
AI will tell you a lot, but if you ask it to unblock a drain or patch your roof you will be disappointed. All the how-to’s in the world won’t get the job done for you.
I tried doing an asset search from the very beginning on Perplexity,…
The Courage to Investigate and Leave AI Behind
There was a letter awhile back in Barron’s that said, “Lawyers look backward to precedent. Innovators assiduously look forward and avoid precedent. The two mindsets are antithetical.”
The letter was about why lawyers at the SEC can’t…
Google and AI are Still Not Substitutes for Thinking
Back in 2011 we wrote that Google is not a substitute for thinking, after Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said in an interview that Google aims to “compute the right answer” to questions typed in by users rather than just provide links.
Now…
The Hallucinating AI Assistant
Would you want someone working for you who regularly hallucinates on the job? If I ran an ad agency, I might want such a person. Maybe he could dream up a series of ads in which a guy and an emu run around telling people about insurance.
But…
How to Start a Divorce Asset Search
Clients usually ask me three questions about a divorce asset search:
“What do you need from me to get started?”
“What can you find?” This is often followed with, “I really want bank and brokerage accounts.”
“How long…
Putting Outrage Aside
There is no shortage of outrage in the world. I suspect it’s always been like this, but it was harder to share it with everyone else before most of us started making instant movies of our lives, to be distributed to millions for almost no…
AI and Google: Not so Different from an Investigative Perspective
Two of the best ways of explaining why a Google search is never enough in an investigation is to remind people that Google is not a neutral distributor of facts, and that it is a tool for thinkers, not a substitute for thinking. I’ve been…
The Perils of AI Investigation – Don’t Get Caught in a Doom Loop
A great piece by Ted Gioia https://lnkd.in/eQxZ5yJ7 about the dangers of looking backward only. This is what AI does, and if you're not careful, living only by algorithms can plunge you into a doom loop.
I've written consistently that generative…
Foreign Investors in the U.S.: If You Don’t Grasp Federalism, You Will Miss a Lot
People from outside the United States sometimes think they understand the country better than they do. That’s natural, because America’s entertainment industry blasts depictions of U.S. life out to just about every other country’s television,…
Marketing Your Business: The Value Proposition and Why It Helps Investigators
There is no one-size-fits-all solution for marketing a business. If you have an unfamiliar product that requires a major amount of trust on the part of the first-time buyer, the approach should not be the same as persuading people to try a different…
