Re:Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your fie...
by jackyinger on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:46PM
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It's more about who gets sued. If you make software to fully automate interpretation you would be the party sued. If there is still a human in the loop, you are not liable for their errors.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your fie...
by taneq on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:27PM
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I don't understand how that works - if you're an employee of a company, generally the company is liable for mistakes you make (unless you're also a director of the company). So for the company, whether they choose to provide their services based on the output of some software or based on the judgement of a human employee, the result should be the same.
I can see an argument that if the company was sued then it could try to push the blame onto the software vendor, but surely that would be decided based on the contract between company and software vendor, which is usually defined by the software license.