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> The true value of a lawyer is their judgement, analysis ability, and their power of persuasion. I agree. We're not going to be seeing AI replacing lawyers an

> The true value of a lawyer is their judgement, analysis ability, and their power of persuasion. I agree. We're not going to be seeing AI replacing lawyers any time soon. That being said, I think you are downplaying the efficiency gains which come from AI and lawyers working together, especially when it comes to bespoke work. For your example, diffing two patents is indeed something which still requires human intelligence. But there are ways of making the process of comparison more efficient by automatically correlating similar claims, providing references inline, etc. This goes beyond the easy wins which come from "better spelling, grammar, and cite checking software" (which are themselves non-negligible).

rhino369 11y ago
>providing references inline Me and a few people at were joking that we should leave our firm and write an addon for Chrome that adds cites when you copy and paste from google patent. I would kill for that.
- rahimnathwani 11y ago
  What exactly would it need to do?
- berntb 11y ago
  Does MacOS still support multiple format variants of copy/paste? Sounds like a small add on, in that case?
  - mh- 11y ago
    it does, yes. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pbcopy.1.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
- reitanqild 11y ago
  If you could do away with Chrome you could maybe use IE + OneNote? Cannot say for sure in your case but OneNote is pretty good at linking to where you copied stuff from.
georgemcbay 11y ago
Yeah, "this" as they say. People tend to think about job-destruction from AI in terms of when AI can replace everyone doing that job, but the real negative (in terms of job growth) impact comes a long time before that. If AI is good enough to let 1 person do the job 5 used to do, that's already a huge economic impact -- 80% reduction is huge.

rhino369 11y ago

>providing references inline Me and a few people at were joking that we should leave our firm and write an addon for Chrome that adds cites when you copy and paste from google patent. I would kill for that.

rahimnathwani 11y ago
What exactly would it need to do?
berntb 11y ago
Does MacOS still support multiple format variants of copy/paste? Sounds like a small add on, in that case?
- mh- 11y ago
  it does, yes. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pbcopy.1.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
reitanqild 11y ago
If you could do away with Chrome you could maybe use IE + OneNote? Cannot say for sure in your case but OneNote is pretty good at linking to where you copied stuff from.

georgemcbay 11y ago

Yeah, "this" as they say. People tend to think about job-destruction from AI in terms of when AI can replace everyone doing that job, but the real negative (in terms of job growth) impact comes a long time before that. If AI is good enough to let 1 person do the job 5 used to do, that's already a huge economic impact -- 80% reduction is huge.