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Robolawyer Files Appeals

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:43PM   
from the queue-the-lawyer-jokes-in-3-2-1 dept.

looorg writes:

A chatbot-"ai"-lawyer keeps filing appeals against parking tickets and similar minor offenses. The author claims it has defeated an estimated 375,000 parking tickets by now -- defeated or appealed? Is every appeal a sure win with this bot-created-paperwork? Do people even contact lawyers to fight parking tickets? Isn't the lawyer fee almost always going to be higher than the fine? Sure, it might be about the good fight and standing up for what is right, etc. but still.

After reading the story I'm still unsure what the actual AI part of the chatbot is, it seems to just be one big decision-tree. But I guess that doesn't get as much press as claiming you have invented a lawyer-AI.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15960080/chatbot-ai-legal-donotpay-us-uk

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• Re:Nothing wrong with calling it AI Re:Nothing wrong with calling it AI (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Thursday July 13 2017, @02:22PM (1 child)

  by TheRaven (270) on Thursday July 13 2017, @02:22PM (#538695) Journal

  There is something wrong with calling it AI: the term has been so watered down by the media that it can mean 'fully conscious artificial entity', 'algorithm', 'program', or 'computer'. Anyone who describes something as an AI is more likely to be demonstrating their ignorance than informing their audience.

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• Re:Nothing wrong with calling it AI (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:40PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:40PM (#538794) Journal

  AI: anything a computer can't do yet.

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