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China Now Has AI-Powered Judges
Beijing is bringing AI judges to court. The move, proclaimed by China as "the first of its kind in the world", comes from the Beijing Internet Court, which has launched an online litigation service center featuring an artificially intelligent female judge, with a body, facial expressions, voice, and actions all modeled off a living, breathing human (one of the court's actual female judges, to be exact).
[...] But conspiracy theorists can breathe a sigh of relief — the AI apocalypse is not nigh (yet). This virtual judge, whose abilities are based on intelligent speech and image synthesizing technologies, is to be used for the completion of “repetitive basic work” only, according to the Beijing Internet Court’s official statement on the move. That means she’ll mostly be dealing with litigation reception and online guidance. Other features of the online service center include a mobile micro-court and an official Weitao (Taobao's social-media service for brands) account.
Rather than replacing human-populated courts, Beijing's Internet Court’s stated mission is to use new technology to provide more effective, more widely-reaching public services. According to court president Zhang Wen, integrating AI and cloud computing with the litigation service system will allow the public to better reap the benefits of technological innovation in China.
For the first time in China, #AI assistive technology was used in a trial at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court on Wed, the Legal Daily reported. When the judge, public prosecutor or defender asked the AI system, it displayed all related evidence on a courtroom screen. pic.twitter.com/fEI7cR5U3T
— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) January 25, 2019
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:27PM (3 children)
How about AI-Powered congress critters?
I mean if the judicial branch can be AI, why not the legislative branch?
Oh! Oh! I know!!! What about the executive branch?
And why do I call them "branches"? Any good circus has three rings: executive, legislative and judicial.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:26PM
Congress already is AI. They're too stupid to think for themselves so they let big corporations buy their decision.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:53PM (1 child)
The executive branch hasn't been an AI for the past several administrations? Here I was thinking it was all Memorex. It explained so much!
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 23 2019, @12:26AM
Yeah, Artificial but not intelligent. True since at least Reagan.
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