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BakerHostetler Hires Artificial Intelligent Attorney 'Ross' (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Futurism reports, Ross, the first artificially intelligent attorney, was just hired by the global law firm Baker and Hostetler. The firm announced they hired a robot lawyer created by ROSS Intelligence. Ross was built on IBM's Watson and is fully capable of understanding your questions, responding with a hypothesis backed by references and citations. It provides you with the most relevant information you are looking for rather than thousands of results you'd need to sift though. In addition, it can notify you about recent court decisions that may or may not affect your case, and it will continue to learn based off each experience it encounters. ROSS Intelligence co-founder and CEO says other law firms have also signed licenses with Ross.
Figure it would be more accurate to call it a paralegal than a full practicing attorney with a bar that has admitted it.
And yes, pedantry and the legal profession go hand-in-hand, so I figure it's appropriate to do that here.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
So is Watson going to turn into a paid search engine then?
This seems to be a start in that direction.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Can Skynet be far behind?
Please don't dominate the rap, Jack, if you got nothin' new to say.
. . . as well as the conventionally stupid ones.
I can't imagine an A.I. taking into account the ways in which a human jury can be swayed.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Once the robots replace all the lawyers, we'll be even better off.
I mean, sure, the robots may go all kill crazy, but eventually they reach their kill limit and shut down.
Pair this with an autonomous car and you can have a robot who chases ambulances.
not really a lawyer, sounds more like a love child of google and lexus nexus
and we know lawyers aren't born of a loving relationship.
if they haven't passed the bar?
Or, in the future. will individual lawyer personality instances be given personhood, and given a bank account to store their salary portion of the legal bill, and then can I sue the AI instance itself for bad advice?
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Bye, bye buggy whip manufacturers!
Say, since we know that workers in one job can simply be retrained for another more awesome job that will open up because we have cars instead of horse and buggy, I had a question.
How many minerals and how much vespene gas does it cost to upgrade a Lawyer unit into an AI technician unit? What's the cool down on that? I just need to construct additional code.orgs if I want to hurry it along, right? And they don't count against my available supply depos while they're being upgraded, right?
What's the alternative, just shoot them?
Er, nevermind, I think I answered my own question. They're lawyers. Just shoot them.
Based on personal experience, I could have written this "attorney software" in second grade.
CLIENT: "I'd like to do X".
COMPUTER: "Sure thing, litigious human. That will be fifteen thousand dollars for a retainer and we will bill at two hundred fifty dollars an hour. How would you like to pay?"
1) It isn't hired, they bought it or licensed it.
2) It is licensed to practice law, that makes it a Paralegal.
3) Lexis Nexis and others run a similar service, though it requires you to word a search, rather than speak in a regular voice.
What do you call a 100 copies of ROSS being thrown into the sea? A good start.....
Why won't the sharks eat the ROSS software licenses? Professional curtsey.
And last but NOT least...
How do you know ROSS is lying to you? The curser is moving.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Than Lawyers. The better lawyers can understand your pain and exploit it.
Finally!!!
Now we can see how the lawyers and judges have been screwing us forever!!!!
I LOVE WATSON!!!
2 years ago my neighbor went batshit crazy, pounding on my door, claiming I was peeking in her bedroom window at 3 AM, claiming I walked into her living room and kissed her, claiming I walked into her unit, into the bedroom, and went through her closet, etc etc etc. She called the cops on me several times claiming all sorts of crap, including I threw a bowl of piss on her, then finally filed a restraining order against me. Not being stupid, I hired a lawyer. Cost me $1500. Spent maybe 3 hours with the guy, 2 of which were repeating my story 3 times (never mind I'd documented everything and given him the printout), 1 was actually in court.
She claimed I was doing this for some 9 months, yet the sheriff had no record of her ever calling them until she started harassing me. First time they came out I told my story, and one of them said "oh, that's were she went". Hmmm. Finally, she brought a witness into court. Witness 100% contradicted her story.
The real pisser? I asked the judge for legal expenses. He gave me half. Even though it was 100% clear to everyone in the courtroom she was 100% full of shit, he only gave me 50% ($750). Why? "I don't want women to feel like they'll be harassed when they ask for a restraining order". Asshole. He also didn't do that thing where she has to pay me. She moved, I don't know were. So she owes me $750 (in my mind $1500), I don't know where she is or how to contact her, and she's not paying. I have no recourse in the courts.
The kicker? She was a registered nurse and google showed her prior address, maybe 1/4 mile from me. Went over there, she'd done the same thing at that place. Explains the deputy's "oh, that's where she went" comment.
Do I need to say that absolutely nothing she claimed I did was true? Yeah, I though so. I was 100% the victim here, I did nothing to her.
Quick! We have to create laws forbidding automation of lawyers! (But everyone else's jobs are, of course, still up for grabs.)
Solid story though. I think I've met one or two of these in my time. Usually they claim its bi-polar or something vague. Pro tip, if she says shes bi-polar, avoid all contact.
I am a real person and my name is Ross.
Its mot that uncommon...
I Am Not A Lawyer