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ParanoidFactoid t1_j5qsj6w wrote

Reply to comment by BoldestKobold in First AI-powered "robot" lawyer will represent defendant in court next month by mycatisanorange

Let's be honest with ourselves about what the tool really is: It's a chatbot. It doesn't know what the words mean. It doesn't understand context. It isn't aware of itself, much less the circumstances it writes about. It groups words according to grammar and statistical correlations.

This is NOT AI. It is not intelligent. We don't even know where to begin to create that. With AI, it's like the 1980s all over again.

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imdrunkontea t1_j5xiofd wrote

Same with Al art. It has no idea what it's doing, only that certain keywords correlate to certain patterns of pixel colors in the billions of images it harvested "learned" from. As one lawyer put it, these "AI" algorithms are just sophisticated collage tools.

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rendrr t1_j5tkb3z wrote

Expert system could be a great help for lawyers. Not in this implementation or role, but like an intelligent search engine for laws and cases. Systems like IBM Watson which would go to lawyer school and sip through years of cases. Not saying it would be fantastic, but at least it's a knowledge based system. ChatGPT... well, it's known to make stuff up, like citing fake sources in generated research paper. Would be fun for a lawyer if it cited a fake court case.

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