Posted on 01/06/2023 10:35:31 AM PST by grundle
A ‘robot lawyer’ is all set to defend a speeding ticket on its first day in court next month.
In February, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by DoNotPay will advise a defendant during an entire court case, likely making it the first-ever case defended by an AI.
The AI will run on a smartphone, listening in to the proceedings of the courtroom before instructing the defendant on what to say via an earpiece as reported by the New Scientist.
The location of the court and the name of the defendant are being kept under wraps at the moment.
In case the AI loses the case, DoNoPay has agreed to cover any fines according to the company’s founder and CEO, Joshua Browder.
Billed as ‘the world’s first robot lawyer’, the company wants to help people ‘fight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button’.
Browder, a Stanford University-educated computer scientist, launched DoNotPay in 2015 as a chatbot that provides legal advice to consumers dealing with late fees or fines.
His ultimate goal is to have his app replace lawyers altogether in order to save defendants money.
‘It’s all about language, and that’s what lawyers charge hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to do,’ he told told New Scientist.
‘There’ll still be a lot of good lawyers out there who may be arguing in the European Court of Human Rights, but a lot of lawyers are just charging way too much money to copy and paste documents and I think they will definitely be replaced, and they should be replaced,’
The AI works as a legal assistant by asking the client what the legal problem is and finds a loophole which it then turns into a legal letter that it can send to the right institution or upload to a website.
In a promotional video, Browder explained that he came up with the idea when he began accumulating parking tickets, which he could not afford to pay. In the process he became ‘an expert’ on loopholes that would allow him to get out of paying the fines.
As a software engineer, Browder realized that the tedious and expensive process of appealing parking tickets could be automated and created a website to help people do the same.
‘The goal of this company is to make the $200 billion legal profession free for consumers,’ said Browder.
Last month, his company’s chatbot successfully negotiated with internet provider Comcast’s representatives to save $120 a year on an employee’s Internet bill.
https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1602353465753309195
Here it is! The first ever Comcast bill negotiated 100% with A.I and LLMs.
Our @DoNotPay ChatGPT bot talks to Comcast Chat to save one of our engineers $120 a year on their Internet bill.
Will be publicly available soon and work on online forms, chat and email.
The AI Judge Dredd is next.
I want the Perry Mason version.
Yup—the lawyers have a decade or two left—and then they will be replaced by machines.
Programmer tip:
“If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts.
If you have the law on your side, argue the law.
If you have neither on your side, pound the table!”
It’s no worse than having a retarded president
So I represented myself (pro se) and won. If Jesus is the Advocate we need with the Heavenly Father, then Jesus is the one you need most in the courtroom of man.
It will only be historic when its the first gay robot lawyer ..or black tranny robot lawyer.
-PJ
Cool! Then we can do what what Shakespeare said.
We have some litigation going on right now—had to fire one lawyer.
There is an amazing difference between good lawyers and bad ones—the good ones know the law and fight like junkyard dogs.
The bad ones make stupid mistakes and couldn’t care less if they win or lose.
"I wish I could have back the retirement savings my ex drained from me in my 30’s with an ugly divorce."
I'd say you got your money's worth.
I thought the industry was already laden with a lot of robotic
attorneys.
The same can be said about surgeons.
Cool! Then we can do what what Shakespeare said.
I suggest we start early, there’s a lot of them scumbags out there.
In divorce/custody disputes the lawyers know that a least one side is passionate about destroying the other and they take advantage of that to stir up a lot of expensive but unnecessary court time and lawyer time to run up their bills. Even though my ex was the one in forever-stir-the-pot mode, my attorney didn't try to bring the case to a close but instead chose to just fought off her attacks on me enough to keep her from completely cutting me off from my kids, but not enough to win and bring the case to a close.
Once I realized that he was keeping the case going to keep running up his bill, I fired the first attorney and hired another. But I got the same results so I fired him too. So I took off a month of work to learn enough about the law and court proceedings and stare decisis to represent myself. At that point my legal fees quit going up because I was no longer paying an attorney $300/hour, I had to pay only a $25 or so court filing fee here or there. Unlike my ex who had to pay an attorney by the hour ... until both she and her parents ran out of money. Even with me paying her almost $1,200/month in child support during those years she had "temporary" sole custody of the kids, it wasn't enough to pay her legal fees in her vain attempts to destroy me. (This was decades ago when $1,200/month was a lot of money.)
I did more than just legally defend myself from her stupid attacks. I attacked her back (legally) a lot. I did it not just to win those attacks, I attacked with motions I knew I wouldn't win because she had to respond to every one -- which meant raising her legal fees. The strategy was to make her attorney drop her for not paying on the sky high bill and make her parents decide it wasn't worth forever helping her hire new attorneys. The plan worked to perfection. In the end it was just her and me in front of the judge without attorneys and I won custody, in part because she can't put together a cohesive argument.
I got custody of the kids and finished raising them. I married a lady I met in church after my ex left and put together a blended family helping each other finish raising each other's kids. With me receiving a little bit of child support until the kids were grown it helped out a little -- even if I had to go to court a couple of times when my ex stopped paying. And now that the kids are grown and all the court stuff is over, my ex and I get along the few times we've seen each other in the past decade.
Black tranny robot lawyer ...with only one leg...and muslim.
Soon criminal trial will be filled with speakover ads
AI lawyer:
And my client has a right to feel safe...and speaking of safe I may add have you, the jury, considered AlarmGuard for your home security needs...
Cute story, but he’s actually late to market. The legal profession has been using robotic process automation to automate routine tasks. ChatGPT is very interesting, but very limited in its responses.
Good.
Many Freepers want robots & AI to eliminate bottom rung jobs that don’t pay very well.
I don’t.
Robots & AI need to eliminate the bloated non producing fat that has grown in the public & private corporate sectors since 1960.
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