Angela Chen
An “artificial-intelligence attorney” created using technology from IBM’s Watson has snagged its first customer, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be appearing in the courtroom anytime soon.
Law firm Baker & Hostetler said this week that it will use the “AI lawyer” ROSS as a resource for the 50 lawyers in its bankruptcy division, which has helped advise proceedings related to the Bernie Madoff case.
Essentially, ROSS is an advanced a research tool. It reads and draws inferences from existing laws to answer questions about specific cases or guidelines that users can ask using natural language. Its machine-learning capabilities allow it to continue improving its answers, and the system can also help keep lawyers up-to-date about new rulings. ROSS could save time for lawyers who need to master a huge, and growing, body of literature to do their job. Instead of reading carefully through every single case that might be relevant, lawyers could quickly get information from ROSS, leaving them free to spend more time analyzing complex details of the most relevant cases and laws.
https://gizmodo.com/a-major-law-firm-will-soon-be-using-a-robotic-lawyer-1776733245
I thought they all were fighting robots
We just don’t need real lawyers anymore. They all should be replaced by robots
They actually will be replaced to the certain extent, along with stockbrokers, accountants, journalists, etc. Algorithms are already doing this and the trend is moving at rapid speed. The greatest threat to mankind is not climate change, not the threat of nuclear war. No, we are not going to be overrun by robots. Well, not exactly. The biggest threat we face is what are we as a society going to do with the illumination of the traditional workplace? We have based our society on the principle of work and compensation for eons.
We already have one, as well as a robotic “planner.”