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Bar exam is not a test of sentience but of the ability to recall, interpret, and apply the law. Because law is an entirely textual thing, I would expect GPT to

Bar exam is not a test of sentience but of the ability to recall, interpret, and apply the law. Because law is an entirely textual thing, I would expect GPT to be exceedingly well suited for it. I've said for a long time that most doctors and lawyers are just databases with quick and imperfect retrieval.

forgetfulness 4y ago
Maybe the "talk about your issue and get a diagnosis" area of practice (internal medicine?); since far less sophisticated manual labor can't yet be automated, surgeons are going to be irreplaceable for longer than, say, BI, and many backend or frontend developers.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  If House taught me anything it is that People Lie, and you do not have to talk to patients to diagnose them /s
  - VBprogrammer 4y ago
    I wonder if people could be more honest with a sub-sentient AI than they could be with a real life doctor. I bet they currently are more honest in their Google searches than they are with the doctor.
dumbfounder 4y ago
If that's all a lawyer needs to do then AI should be able to take over large portions of the law process. I saw a dystopian short recently that explored this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PleaseHold https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PleaseHold
booleandilemma 4y ago
And so as AI advances, the goal posts for what counts as intelligence are moved yet again.
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- andsoitis 4y ago
  Maybe a useful way to think about it is that we don't know for sure what intelligence is nor how the gradient of intelligence expresses itself. For instance, does a human grow in intelligence as it ages (a baby doesn't "know" stuff, but has the capacity for learning and then applying in new situations as its experience grows). I interpret your statement as implying that ChatGPT is somewhere on the spectrum of intelligence, yes?
w1nst0nsm1th 4y ago
In english based common law system, a judge can take an original decision on a specific case, such decision entering then the rules of law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Basic_principles_of_common_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Basic_principles_of... An AI based on a statistic algorithm (that what AI are) would not be able to make such a decision.

forgetfulness 4y ago

Maybe the "talk about your issue and get a diagnosis" area of practice (internal medicine?); since far less sophisticated manual labor can't yet be automated, surgeons are going to be irreplaceable for longer than, say, BI, and many backend or frontend developers.

phpisthebest 4y ago
If House taught me anything it is that People Lie, and you do not have to talk to patients to diagnose them /s
- VBprogrammer 4y ago
  I wonder if people could be more honest with a sub-sentient AI than they could be with a real life doctor. I bet they currently are more honest in their Google searches than they are with the doctor.

dumbfounder 4y ago

If that's all a lawyer needs to do then AI should be able to take over large portions of the law process. I saw a dystopian short recently that explored this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PleaseHold https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PleaseHold

booleandilemma 4y ago

And so as AI advances, the goal posts for what counts as intelligence are moved yet again.

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andsoitis 4y ago
Maybe a useful way to think about it is that we don't know for sure what intelligence is nor how the gradient of intelligence expresses itself. For instance, does a human grow in intelligence as it ages (a baby doesn't "know" stuff, but has the capacity for learning and then applying in new situations as its experience grows). I interpret your statement as implying that ChatGPT is somewhere on the spectrum of intelligence, yes?

w1nst0nsm1th 4y ago

In english based common law system, a judge can take an original decision on a specific case, such decision entering then the rules of law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Basic_principles_of_common_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Basic_principles_of... An AI based on a statistic algorithm (that what AI are) would not be able to make such a decision.