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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, Touché) by choose another one on Thursday August 22 2019, @10:39AM (9 children)
This is China, how long before "repetitive basic work" is extended to "sentence-defendant; shoot-in-head; bill-relatives-for-bullet" ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @11:04AM (7 children)
# Look Ma, I can code AI!
while (1) { return "Guilty" }
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 22 2019, @12:36PM (6 children)
That while loop is pointless because it will be terminated as soon as the return statement is executed. That is, that code is exactly equivalent to just the return statement.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:12PM (2 children)
10 PRINT "GUILTY"
20 GOSUB 10
30 END
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:32PM (1 child)
Stack overflow. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:30PM
The recursion will end once it hits the RETURN statement. Just be patient!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:45PM (2 children)
As long is ran once per trial it works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:17PM (1 child)
Never heard of multiple charges?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:31PM
Positive and Negative?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:10PM
Please realize that defendants are not simply railroaded through the system. They will be represented by an AI-Powered defense lawyer.
This will make things easier for the AI-Powered prosecutor.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.