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> the company's AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells the defendant what

by awb 4y ago

> the company's AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells the defendant what to say in real-time, through headphones. Based on AI’s propensity for being confidently incorrect, I’m not sure I’d want to be repeating AI output in a court of law and representing it as truth.

leobg 4y ago
Isn’t that exactly the most important skill of a lawyer? /s
- noduerme 4y ago
  It absolutely is! Because isn't the nature of eyewitness memory also to be confidently incorrect?
Hithredin 4y ago
But this xan be be a. ery good complement to an actual layer. The layer would spend less time preparing (so cheaper) and will basically direct the IA and act as safeguard when the AI gets so confidently incorrect.
- bamboozled 4y ago
  I think what's going to happen here is, almost every dispute will end in a court case, using AI (because it's cheaper). It's going to suck so hard.
- akiselev 4y ago
  Hopefully these IA layers will still have a paralegal proofreading.
ww520 4y ago
What if it turns out to be an actual lawyer doing the answer on the other side of the phone?
- hef19898 4y ago
  Wasn't there something on HN frontpage lately about "fake it until you automate it"?
- g_p 4y ago
  Then I imagine the defendant would risk enjoying a stretch in jail for contempt of court, for creating an unauthorized recording or live "streaming" of the court? I'm not even convinced by the idea of having a person repeat what they hear through headphones - something like this could easily slow proceedings down, and that's without even going into whether or not the AI can stick to a consistent and accurate set of facts.
levesque 4y ago
In the meantime GPT fails the bar exam, especially the free form questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/107clau/comment/j3m10bn/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/107clau/commen...

by awb 4y ago

leobg 4y ago

Isn’t that exactly the most important skill of a lawyer? /s

noduerme 4y ago
It absolutely is! Because isn't the nature of eyewitness memory also to be confidently incorrect?

Hithredin 4y ago

But this xan be be a. ery good complement to an actual layer. The layer would spend less time preparing (so cheaper) and will basically direct the IA and act as safeguard when the AI gets so confidently incorrect.

bamboozled 4y ago
I think what's going to happen here is, almost every dispute will end in a court case, using AI (because it's cheaper). It's going to suck so hard.
akiselev 4y ago
Hopefully these IA layers will still have a paralegal proofreading.

ww520 4y ago

What if it turns out to be an actual lawyer doing the answer on the other side of the phone?

hef19898 4y ago
Wasn't there something on HN frontpage lately about "fake it until you automate it"?
g_p 4y ago
Then I imagine the defendant would risk enjoying a stretch in jail for contempt of court, for creating an unauthorized recording or live "streaming" of the court? I'm not even convinced by the idea of having a person repeat what they hear through headphones - something like this could easily slow proceedings down, and that's without even going into whether or not the AI can stick to a consistent and accurate set of facts.

levesque 4y ago

In the meantime GPT fails the bar exam, especially the free form questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/107clau/comment/j3m10bn/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/107clau/commen...