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Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by smdz on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:13AM (#20735877)
The title is missing the point..

It says "... to be used for the completion of “repetitive basic work” only..."

That is what most software automation attempts to do!

Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by yorwba on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:48AM (#20736649)
The original press release has a bit more information on the implementation: https://www.bjinternetcourt.gov.cn/cac/zw/1562291071463.html

The "virtual AI judge" has a collection of 120 frequently asked questions. Based on keywords in user input, it picks one of the predetermined answers and uses speech synthesis to have an avatar read it out. So, a chat bot.

More useful is probably the "mobile court", which is supposed to enable filing a suit online and participating in hearings via video conference. The avatar is only a small part of that.

They've also opened a shop on Taobao, which seems absurd to me, but they seem to be very enthusiastic about it.

Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by azinman2 on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:58AM (#20735803)
It’s not actually a judge. Title is misleading.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by snaky on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:30AM (#20735951)
> Title is misleading

As in most of the cases when AI is involved, and most of the cases when China is involved.

Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by toxicFork on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:45AM (#20736302)
Let's develop a machine learning algorithm which can decide the likelihood of misleading title by checking what contexts are involved
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by misterman0 on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:53AM (#20736343)
Before we have developed a machine learning algorithm which can decide what contexts are involved in a corpus by checking which words are included, and in what order and within what subcontext?
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by toxicFork on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:57AM (#20736371)
Maybe.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by misterman0 on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:04AM (#20736405)
I like your reasoning, it is worthy of both karma and LOL's.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by snaky on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:00AM (#20736385)
Good old list of hype-words is enough.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by Mzperx on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:19AM (#20735898)
At the official website, they also refer to it as AI judge. Besides that, it is using facial recognition and voice recognition through WeChat running on mobile devices.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by yorwba on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:53AM (#20736680)
Neither facial recognition nor voice recognition nor WeChat are mentioned anywhere.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by marsRoverDev on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:26AM (#20735925)
We in the west are already using this for bail decisionmaking - this one is used in the US.

https://www.equivant.com/northpointe-suite/

On another note, why is there always a push to "humanise" the system with some bullshit robot? It's completely unnecessary. What it boils down to is some weighted matrices doing mathematical work. I would argue that if it was used by a human judge to aid their judgement, mixed in with their prior experience. I would argue that in a lot of cases it is going to make them question their own biases if the system is designed to be race blind and only using the salient facts.

Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by tomohawk on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:40AM (#20735983)
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by waterdownship on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:47AM (#20736908)
I just realized the url and title for this entry changed..
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by est on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:23AM (#20736209)
> litigation reception and online guidance

tl;dr chat bots.

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Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by duaoebg on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:28AM (#20735934)
In death everyone is equal.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by john_minsk on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:33AM (#20736845)
Don't worry. They will have white list for top of the top
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by mortdeus on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:10AM (#20735860)
heh, at least i have my idea for the slackjaw humor competition
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by warofthewontons on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:06AM (#20735847)
the internet of wechat
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by Mzperx on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:20AM (#20735904)
Exactly. See you later open web.
Re:Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service... by datenhorst on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:19AM (#20736184)
we-nternet