• The Chief Justice of India unveiled the Supreme Court of India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) portal SUPACE

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• CJI launched the AI based portal in the judicial system aimed at assisting judges with legal research “more efficiently, methodically and                          systematically” than a human mind but said it will not be allowed to “spill over” into decision making.
• It is designed to make research easier for judges, thereby easing their workload.
• SUPACE is a tool that collects relevant facts and laws and makes them available to a judge.
• The portal is the pet project of CJI SA Bobde
• The Supreme Court’s system is not designed to take decisions, but only to process facts and to make them available to judges looking for an input for a decision.
• With this portal, the SC intends to leverage machine learning to deal with the vast amounts of data received at the time of filing of cases.
• It is a perfect blend of human intelligence and machine learning. A hybrid one
• This AI powered portal will ease pendency of cases
• It can address bottlenecks resulting in excessive delays
• It has the potential to be a tremendous asset in the justice delivery system. In the future, AI will present a more streamlined, cost effective and time bound means of bringing to fruition the fundamental right of access to justice