[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/oh_happy_day_lawyers_replaced_by_ai/[/url]
[QUOTE]Artificial intelligence is a worry on two fronts. In a worst-case scenario, we end up with The Terminator. In a less-painful scenario, we end up with billions of humans out of work as drudgery is replaced by machines.
The second scenario looks just a little bit closer today, but also less painful, after the advent of “ROSS”, a service that promises to replace lawyers.
Don't start cheering at the prospect of a lawyer-less world. Ross is billed as a lawyer's aide that can handle natural language queries like “What is the leading case in Ontario on an employee starting a competing business” and spit out a “relevant answer”.
The schtick seems to be that this service produces more accurate results than Google, thanks to specialisation and affiliations with legal publishers that give it quality information on which to feed. Most of such publishers' content requires payments to access, either by subscription or pay-by-read. ROSS proposes to charge such publishers a small commission.
ROSS isn't saying just how it does this stuff, other than to say it's put IBM's Watson supercolossal-analytics-o-tron to work.
Helping lawyers to do stuff they'd dump on a junior's desk isn't quite enough evidence with which to justify a time-travelling intervention to alter the past and erase Watson from history. In fact some may argue we'd be better served if ROSS came into existence rather earlier, as by removing the need for lawyers we get the best possible example of AI as a benign force.[/QUOTE]
Not sure I can trust a cold, emotionless machine. Good thing they're making these computers to replace them
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So wait, what if both sides are using the same AI? what would happen then?
Back to the Future predicted that all lawyers would be abolished sometime in the early 21st century. Glad to see some predictions coming true.
[QUOTE=Damjen;47042184]Yeah, let computers help decide who should go to jail and who shouldn't. What could possibly go wrong, right?
I mean everything you can find on the internet is truth, like those Albert Einstein quotes.[/QUOTE]
Garry please bring back bad reading
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The next season of Suits will be interesting..
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[QUOTE=Mingebox;47042147]Not sure I can trust a cold, emotionless machine. Good thing they're making these computers to replace them[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure we can just go ahead and skip to 2016.
How nice timing, with Microsoft and Bill Gates talking about AI.
Gotta ask, you guys think this is a step in the right direction or nah?
AI in law is nothing new, even has a journal dedicated to the subfield. Some of the papers I've been have been interesting even if I can't understand it all.
[QUOTE=Mattz333;47042231]Back to the Future predicted that all lawyers would be abolished sometime in the early 21st century. Glad to see some predictions coming true.[/QUOTE]
They also predicted self-tying Nikes so they're doing pretty good.
This is really just a better search engine for lawyers. Plain and simple.
Well, a lot of law work is just research, argument-building and sorting through endless piles of cases. That kind of stuff is ripe for being replaced with computers.
That said, as long as juries are composed of actual humans, trial lawyers will have to be human, too.
Looks more like an organic querry search engine rather than anything else. So not an AI to replace lawyers, but interns and paralegals.
Up next AI assisted judges
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rGfs2lx1Q[/media]
Well, Stephen Hawking predicted that mankind would be destroyed by artificial intelligence, what better place to start than the legal system?
[QUOTE=da space core;47042208]So wait, what if both sides are using the same AI? what would happen then?[/QUOTE]
Pray to RNGesus.
It's just like when Doc Brown said "The justice system works more swiftly now that they've abolished all lawyers" :v: .
[QUOTE=TechnoS;47046700]Pray to RNGesus.[/QUOTE]
Who is this false god, the only true rng god is Nuffle!
But yeah, this just seems like a glorified search engine rather than an AI. I feel like AI is getting thrown around a lot lately for stuff that really isn't.
Better Call Saul2-D2
I would trust Saul Goodman if i could find a lawyer like him. The costumer satisfaction is over the roof
[video=youtube;lNmUaG7MNDo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNmUaG7MNDo[/video]
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;47047054]It's just like when Doc Brown said "The justice system works more swiftly now that they've abolished all lawyers" :v: .[/QUOTE]
What a coincidence, they just happened to be in the year 2015 when he said that. Holy shit, maybe BttF is becoming reality? I mean, we ARE getting those self-lacing shoes after all.
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