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20 Top Lawyers Were Beaten By Legal AI (hackernoon.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report:In a landmark study, 20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI. Their task was to spot issues in five Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), which are a contractual basis for most business deals. The study, carried out with leading legal academics and experts, saw the LawGeex AI achieve an average 94% accuracy rate, higher than the lawyers who achieved an average rate of 85%. It took the lawyers an average of 92 minutes to complete the NDA issue spotting, compared to 26 seconds for the LawGeex AI. The longest time taken by a lawyer to complete the test was 156 minutes, and the shortest time was 51 minutes.

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  1. We Need a Structured Legal Language by sycodon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems like most court cases involving contracts and interpretation of the law are mostly about unpacking the Bullshit written into the contract or law. It seems absurd that one of the functions of the court is to divine the intentions of the law's author.

    A law can be complex in that there are many moving parts that can interact in different manners, but the parts themselves and the manner in which they can interact should be clearly defined and not subject to interpretation.

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  2. Here's an idea for this tecnology by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should put this AI on a website called something like "EULA-Buddy", where you can paste those 10-foot-long EULAs that come with every modern device or service. Then it could concisely tell you how much the EULA sucks. Maybe that would help reign in uncontrolled expansion of these ridiculous "contracts".