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China Now Has AI-Powered Judges

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 22 2019, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the here-comes-the-judge dept.

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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

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  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:37PM (4 children)

    by Alfred (4006) on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:37PM (#883601) Journal
    I did not expect China to allow women to have such positions. I'll have to go back to deriding them for just communism now.
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:25PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:25PM (#883626) Journal

    It isn't a real women. It is an AI robot. So you cannot say you have been Miss. Judge'd.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:51PM (#883642)

      Horatio meme: put glasses on .... YEAAAAH!

      Sorry for the meme reference, just couldn't resist.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:46PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:46PM (#883682) Journal

      From the summary:

      […] modeled off a living, breathing human (one of the court's actual female judges, to be exact).

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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 23 2019, @12:57AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Friday August 23 2019, @12:57AM (#883876)

    Communist? Naw, more like Authoritarian Capitalism.
    Hell, the government of China is more Capitalist than we are!
    They just openly control it from the barrel of a gun.
    True Communism (IMHO) cannot exist beyond the tribal stage of development, when everyone works for the good of the tribe or they all die.
    Once their is plenty of food, true Communism dies and is replaced by Warlords, Authoritarians, Monarchies, doo-doo heads etc.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism#China [wikipedia.org]

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