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On 2016-05-15 01:12, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><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
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<span
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soon till Watson replaces judges?</span><br
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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. <br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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