<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 2016-05-15 01:12, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Looks
like research lawyers will be looking for new employment
now.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">How
soon till Watson replaces judges?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">
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Judging at its core has a representative function rather than a
cognitive function. Also, common sense and clear explanations of the
foundations of a decision, which is relatively hard for Watson-like
systems to do reliabily, is a key part of being a reliable judge -
that will likely take a fair bit of future work to get.<br>
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Law is getting transformed by AI, but it seeps in through automating
the legal search and analysis rather than decisionmaking. Paralegals
are in trouble, but lawyers have hard to automate social skills. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I recall, some years back, hearing of a Brazilian judge who wrote an automated assistant to handle the simplest of traffic ticket cases. I can not find the story now, but if I recall correctly it worked, but only for tickets within its domain. Anything complex (or not a traffic ticket) still had to go to the judge, and he had to sign off on what cases his bot did decide (since "a judge" needed to decide them). Still, it reduced his workload significantly.<br></div></div></div></div>