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Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by vasco on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:20AM (#34308394)
Potentially in ~100 years you could have two AIs sort out the cases. If you can't afford a really good AI to defend you, you can use the public-defender-AI which is trained on the same dataset as the prosecutor-AI. Only involve humans on appeal. It sounds dystopian but I can't see why not to do it, in most simpler cases it's a waste of a human to repeat the same argument for the hundredth time.

There's already things like this without AI to sort out for example EU flight compensation (companies like https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/), parking tickets (https://www.appwinit.com/) and probably more that I don't know about. All of these are complete waste of time to actually have humans deal with, and there's many more small crimes that could work the same way, also to make prosecutor offices more efficient and less biased hopefully.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lordnacho on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:36AM (#34308486)
The AI is not a person in the sense that a person is a person. You see, when a person makes a judgement, you judge the judgement based on personal qualities: did they look like they were paying attention during the case, did they say things that were well reasoned, do they have the right experience?

If we put an AI in the role of the judge/attorneys, we will come up against "ah but the robot didn't do this thing that a human would do" and a lot of people would be convinced that the result was illegitimate. Not necessarily wrong, but without the legitimacy conferred by being done by a human being.

It would require our social system to turn over some decisions that have been done by a very protected sector of society (legal people) to newbies coming from the tech world. "This is the correct sentence because random forest says so" is going to ring hollow to a lot of people.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Semaphor on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:44AM (#34308533)
They said in ~100 years. Think back 100 years ago and how different society was. The war to end all wars recently ended.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by vasco on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:49AM (#34308575)
On legitimacy just because a human did it, I think you are right, and I think the rate of appeal for judgements done by an AI would be higher than judgements done by humans, but if you can even have a 10% "AI-only" close rate for cases, how much time and money are you going to save that can be invested in better justice for the "human required" cases? Over time though, 150, 200, 250 years from now, there's no other way around it, I think.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lordnacho on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:05AM (#34309408)
Well I'm on the tech side so I agree with you, but it's a massive social change. To people who don't understand tech it's like introducing magic, something they clearly are going to fight against.

But yeah there must be low hanging fruit there that in theory could be picked.

Or maybe get that judge who codes to help educate some of his colleagues.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by teekert on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:50AM (#34308586)
Maybe good to realize that judge/jury system is not how it's done everywhere. For example, here in the Netherlands, there are just lawyers and a judge. There is much less emotional swaying of peers (for better or for worse) the focus is on objectivity according to the law.

No saying it's better or worse, but maybe more suited to AI assistants?

That said, I'm sure ChatGPT can make emotional appeals.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by BoxOfRain on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:40AM (#34308901)
I quite like jury trials personally, they're a good mechanism as an authentic people's check on officialdom in my opinion. A similar concept could also serve as a good check on AI by humans I think!
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lordnacho on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:03AM (#34309398)
Already exists in those systems, there's "lay judges" who sit with the judge and have stuff explained to them.

IMO the 12 jurors thing is not ideal. Too many people, and cases can get technical.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by cudgy on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:35AM (#34309633)
One major flaw in jurist system is the deliberation phase where jurists argue with each other and sometimes bully / browbeat / shame one another into voting a certain way. If jurors could simply vote after hearing the case with no group dynamics, it would be more objective.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by BlueTemplar on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:07AM (#34309419)
Sure, but until computers get citizenship (and maybe even then), it will be illegal to use non-algorithmic programs for decision-making, because it runs afoul of the laws that mandate that you must be able to explain how the program helped you to came to a decision (tracing the algorithm step by step) in language that your average person can understand.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by taink on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:36AM (#34310129)
Maybe the program could detail its decision process if it is sufficiently advanced
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by pjc50 on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:23AM (#34308785)
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision". Or in this case, a legal one.

https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/13855657371677245...

The accountability of the existing judicial system is already pretty thin, and in some cases being elected makes it worse rather than better, but turning it over to automation? Having a system that is entirely unaware of the society and political environment in which it operates? That is very bad for legitimacy. Now, you don't need legitimacy so long as the monopoly on violence holds ...

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Karellen on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:45AM (#34308933)
Ah, but if we take the lessons of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve, we just need to start by applying it against^Wwith people "you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient."

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/

So, we start by using AI to help decide immigration claims or parole reviews, which frees up real lawyers to deal with the terrible backlog of more important cases. And once it's in place there, and the results have stood long enough without complaints (from anyone who matters) that society has effectively legitimised them, we can start using the AIs to start "helping" more with other cases.

...now I have to go shower.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by heywhatupboys on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:27AM (#34308436)
While HN often have over the top, "computers will solve everything" takes, your comment is why I keep coming here. What a great fantasy, which at least is a good discussion.

We see this already now i high frequency trading, where companies essentially battle trading bots against each other

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by blitzar on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:41AM (#34308514)
> companies essentially battle trading bots against each other

two computers playing heads or tails is about the extent of it

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by heywhatupboys on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:42AM (#34309684)
surely they are making the traders money though. The smart thing about the free markets is that companies are generally not pursuing things that are not of benefit to them
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by blitzar on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:31AM (#34310698)
> companies essentially battle trading bots against each other

Bot A is trading against Bot B.

> surely they are making the traders money though

It is not possible in a trading battle, exclusively between two parties for them to both make money.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by heywhatupboys on Monday January 09, 2023 @12:30PM (#34312989)
Stock trading is not a zero sum game.

Even further the point: there are more participants in total than the botters

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by blitzar on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:12PM (#34317020)
Stock trading is a negative sum game - there are costs for every trade.

> companies essentially battle trading bots against each other

If the bots are trading against each other, but making money from the other market participants then they are not trading against each other - they are trading against the other market participants.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by jackstraw14 on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:34AM (#34308474)
yeah so, I guess you're saying let it have free reign over us until we figure out how we feel about it. wonderful.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by izacus on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:43AM (#34308528)
I don't get why you're overengineering this so much - with how intelligent AIs currently are, it's much easier to just input everything you did into ChatGPT and have it answer whether you should be executed or sent to a penal colony building iPhones directly. This way we can use the same approach for AIs we already use for banning your Google, iCloud accounts and approving your mortgage and insurance claims.

Much easier and it'll bring a new era of effective policing and prosperity for the corporations.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by iovrthoughtthis on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:50AM (#34308585)
haha, it's absolutism v republicanism wearing new flesh!
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ogre_battle on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:32PM (#34314070)
No flesh involved mon ami. That's the selling point!
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ranting-moth on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:48AM (#34308566)
I think ~100 years is an overestimate by an order of magnitude.

I know that people like to bash GPT-3 and ChatGPT for not being perfect. But people like to bash everything, especially things they don't understand.

Technology tends to grow much closer to an exponential speed than linear. What ChatGPT can do today is truly, utterly, astonishing. That's the new baseline.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lm28469 on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:57AM (#34308622)
It's been at least 70 years since AI is supposed to replace everything a human can do. It's still mostly shit at basically everything besides playing chess and go, I don't think 100 years is unrealistic, especially given the other very important issues we face and will face as humanity
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by mrjin on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:39AM (#34308893)
My gut still tells me you might be too optimistic about it. Sometimes it's just like a function f(x)=1/x. f(x) gets closer and closer to 0 when x grows, but it can never reach it in a finite scope.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ilaksh on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:50AM (#34308972)
It's especially like that for people who have a dualistic worldview.

"Substance dualism is a philosophical position compatible with most theologies which claim that immortal souls occupy an independent realm of existence distinct from that of the physical world."

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ilaksh on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:22AM (#34308772)
AI can play chess, Go, Jeopardy, StarCraft, Minecraft, Atari games, write essays, summarize text, answer almost any question, drive a car, do above average on a SAT test, fool many people into wondering on Twitter if there were real people typing answers, write chapters of books, act as a dungeon master, write code to spec, win programming competitions, act as a therapist, fold proteins, provide medical diagnosis, visualize any image you describe, visualize any video clip you describe, animate characters, understand spoken language, take drive-thru orders, translate, tell jokes on any topic on demand (vastly funnier than you, would bet anything on that), write songs (music and lyrics), recreate a scene from any angle based on some photos, impersonate any person speaking in video and/or audio, impersonate any person's writing style, imitate any art style.

It's quite possible that AI and robotics will fully surpass humans in all tasks in the next several years and you will still be in denial. Along with millions of others.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lm28469 on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:38AM (#34308883)
> AI can .... drive a car

Yeah no. Everything in your list should be prefixed by "kinda", and "kinda" doesn't really cut it in most of these situations.

They certainly are good tools but it's very far from what it promised, even decades ago.

> still be in denial

AI bros are in denial since 1950. With ifs and buts you can write compelling arguments for anything, in the meantime reality is a thing and virtually none of what you wrote is part of reality.

People like you are still in the "everyone will for sure have flying cars by 2000" stage of the new iteration

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by sirsinsalot on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:45AM (#34309286)
My mother can "kinda" drive.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lm28469 on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:41AM (#34310172)
And that's exactly why she's not the taxi driver of everyone on earth
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by newaccount74 on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:36AM (#34308871)
Aside from games, AI can do all these things only with human assistance.

It's like saying "Excel can do your taxes". Sure, it can, if you put the correct numbers and formulas into the cells first.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by candiodari on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:35AM (#34309231)
You forget that a lot of these are moving the goal posts.

AI beat the top players at all those games, but new rules were introduced until AI researchers mostly abandoned those efforts. For instance, the starcraft AI found a really good build order that let it quickly build "Stalkers", a versatile but relatively weak unit. I will note that that build order had several factors that humans found very surprising (consistently oversaturating resource collection by a lot), then controlled those stalker units so well even world-champion level players couldn't match them, with double the APM (meaning the human was allowed 2 actions for every 1 action the AI could take).

In chess the rules have become ... almost ridiculous. Due to cheating, in chess championships you now are "only allowed to play the moves any of the top 3 AIs would play twice in a match, after the first 5 moves". In other words the rules are utterly dependent on humans being worse than AIs. Like in starcraft, btw, AIs have gotten so confident beating human players that a general critique of AI players is that they've gotten "agressive, to the point it's insulting to human players", as one Youtube video put it.

AIs ... beat the average human at driving cars, hell, even Tesla's autopilot beats something like the 98% percentile driver in safety, and Waymo's "chauffeur" is apparently much better than that. I've used chauffeur, and driven behind/around a car controlled by chauffeur. You know what my main comment is? Waymo's chauffeur religiously follows traffic laws (speed limit, stopping at "stop" signs, taking excessive time to manoeuvre around footpaths, ...), it's incredibly irritating to share the road with it. And safe? I've never had an accident, but it's blatantly obvious to me: Waymo's chauffeur is a much safer driver than I am. And that's with people reacting very aggressive towards it.

The conclusion from people? "It's not safe enough". Somehow that argument does not mean we're taking away 98% of people's driving licenses ... it's a double standard, in other words. Exactly what that's based on, I can't tell you. My theory is that it's 95% based on the terminator movies and 5% on 'people will lose their jobs'.

Oh and if you widen the definition of AIs to any algorithm, then you'll have to admit: AIs ARE trusted above humans. For the following paragraph AI means "algorithm", not necessarily deep learning. Humans cannot fly the vast majority of planes, boats, rockets without "AI" assistance. By this I mean a whole lot of vehicles, from any modern Passenger plane to quadcopters require control inputs that the human nervous system is fundamentally unable to generate. For example, because they're too fast. Modern boats, oil tankers, large container ships, require control inputs that humans can't generate because they're too slow (yes, you can calculate, on paper, and then give control inputs, but nobody does that. It's too hard). For passenger planes, AIs are more trusted than human pilots: there are "autolanding-only" weather conditions. There are no "human pilot only" weather conditions. There are now harbours that have high fines if you let a human control the ship for certain classes of ships.

There are now passenger flights where the pilot's function is the checklist, closing up the plane, and turning on autopilot. Negotiating with ground control, taxiing, taking off, negotiating with ATC, flying the plane, Negotiating again with ground control, landing, taxiing and parking the plane are all done by AI. Some of these functions are even done by deep learning algorithms.

So I contend: the problem with cars is that humans won't LET AIs control cars, and at the moment that describes 95% of the situation. That's still 5% inaccurate, and it will change. Not because Skynet will take over, but because we're building ever more cars that are safer, more performant, more helpful ... generally better because the human driver is surrounded by ever more algorithms. For instance, one example where people, even good drivers, generally agree Tesla's AI does better than themselves is parking. That's a case where people will gladly hand over the reins to AI. Those cases will grow, and grow and grow until humans are out, legislated out even, as is partly done in aviation today.

And, frankly, the problem is not the question "how do we make an algorithm control the car better", but the answer to the question "if a human gets an AI to do something so difficult/stupid it fails, who pays for damages?". That's at least 50% of the problem, if not more.

The transition from "humans do everything" to "AIs do everything" is quite a bit further along than the impression you're giving. I agree with the conclusion that we're not there yet, but we're pretty far along.

And, finally, I'd like to reverse your argument. Let's say we're two AIs in the year 30000, discussing:

> It's like saying "Humans can do your taxes". Sure, they can, if you put the correct numbers and formulas into a book and school them with that book for 18 years first. How does it make any sense? My taxes are due this year.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by notahacker on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:10AM (#34309442)
Citing software like autoland which slavishly applies the rules humans have programmed into it as a reason why neural networks should be considered better than humans at solving general intelligence problems is moving the goalposts even further the other way...
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by antihero on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:37AM (#34309639)
Not doubting you but do you have some articles for these vast incredible use cases? Seems fascinating.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by dmurray on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:44AM (#34309704)
> Due to cheating, in chess championships you now are "only allowed to play the moves any of the top 3 AIs would play twice in a match, after the first 5 moves".

This is such utter nonsense that I assume the rest of your post is also closer to being false than being true.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lm28469 on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:51AM (#34310282)
> but we're pretty far along.

Go out literally anywhere outside of a major western city and you'll witness just how incredibly wrong you are about this statement.

> and Waymo's "chauffeur" is apparently much better than that

You forgot a major detail, on clear straight and wide californian roads with perfect conditions. Put them in a historical european city or in inda's traffic hell and witness the mayhem

Even waymo's previous ceo was full of doubt: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/alphabet-google-waymo-ceo...

We're still so far away from autonomous vehicles, to the point most still doubt we'll get there one day without rebuilding our entire infrastructure to accommodate it

Teslas can't even drive in snowy or foggy condition, that removes half the planet for 1/3rd of the year, but of course for a FAANG engineer living in the bay that's not a problem, for them we already have fully autonomous cars, it's just an extremely tiny subset of it.

I spent my holidays in a Eastern european country, I'd pay big money to film Musk in a fully autonomous tesla there, it would probably be the funniest shit ever, I bet it would crash in the first mile

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by candiodari on Monday January 09, 2023 @04:14PM (#34316166)
> I spent my holidays in a Eastern european country, I'd pay big money to film Musk in a fully autonomous tesla there, it would probably be the funniest shit ever, I bet it would crash in the first mile

I agree it'd be funny, but crash in the first mile? I'd take that bet.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ThalesX on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:33AM (#34309217)
> act as a dungeon master

I've been trying to get it to act as a dungeon master unsuccesfully. Do you have any other leads apart from GPT (ChatGPT or AIDungeon)?

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ilaksh on Monday January 09, 2023 @03:03PM (#34315230)
AI Dungeon is not too bad on the latest model. https://character.ai has some that are decent.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by newaccount74 on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:54AM (#34309345)
> not permitted to reply

You may need to wait a few minutes before you can reply. Refresh the page

> The new OpenAI models certainly don't need any help to answer their prompts

I've only tried ChatGPT, and it needs a lot of help if you want it to do useful stuff. 90% of my attempts to get it to do something failed. ChatGPT provides an answer that looks sensible at a first glance, but it misses the point. I needed to try a lot of variations of prompts to actually get it to answer my questions, and once it does it was a lot of effort to check if the answers were correct. That's why I am saying you need human assistance.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by imtringued on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:47AM (#34310233)
Ok then get rid of all humans, they aren't needed anymore.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by naveen99 on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:06PM (#34320371)
AI can’t play ping pong, soccer, basketball, fold clothes, clean up a mess. Also, it’s not allowed to accumulate or allocate capital, has no legal standing.

Also, there is entirely too much hype on gpt and it’s unwieldy nature and not enough on bert and actually useful tools.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by NoPicklez on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:28PM (#34320502)
I asked GPT and it gave multiple examples of where AI has played ping pong.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by kristiandupont on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:01AM (#34309038)
>It's been at least 70 years since AI is supposed to replace everything a human can do

I am sure someone made a statement like that 70 years ago. The fact that that person was wrong doesn't mean that nothing has happened.

You claim that it's "mostly shit as basically everything", even though the featured article shows that it's close to passing the bar exam.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by corford on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:04AM (#34309058)
As a counter to this, I found a recent Guardian article on ChatGPT did a nice job of cutting through some of the more optimistic hyperbole surrounding LLMs/AI at the moment and offered instead a more grounded perspective as to what ChatGPT is and what it is not: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgp...
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Kostchei on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:19AM (#34309143)
try it. get on an use it. It is pretty remarkable. I have been using for all sorts of stuff. It is a brain extension- the ways it is limited at the moment are based on what the builders intended "no, I won't let you build a virtual environment, no I won't roll up a dnd character etc.." but when pressed/jail broken it most certainly can do those things..

I feel like I felt when explaining google search in 1999

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by corford on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:36AM (#34309236)
I have tried it and it's great. But, because it's so effective, it's easy to over extrapolate and anthropomorphise it. I think it's useful to keep in perspective (as the article and referenced paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551 - talk about) that ChatGPT/LLMs are, ultimately, just extremely powerful statistical next-token prediction systems.

That doesn't at all invalidate the achievement or belittle the impact such systems will have on society but, keeping this in mind does help to avoid blowing everything out of proportion (which is easy to do because, yep, ChatGPT is genuinely very cool and exciting tech).

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ranting-moth on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:48AM (#34309308)
It can be tricky to grasp exponential growth.

Water trickles into a big pool. The flow was slow to start with but flow rate increases exponentially so that the amount of water in the pool doubles every year.

Now, it started flowing 100 years ago when the pool was empty. It's now half full. When will it be full? Remember it's been flowing for 100 years and it's only half full.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ctrwu2843 on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:10AM (#34309443)
Useful analogy but what makes you think what we're dealing with is exponential ?

Human intelligence isn't growing exponentially and moores law is said to be breaking down.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ranting-moth on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:53AM (#34309771)
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by imtringued on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:17AM (#34312030)
Where is my human brain capability for $1000 by 2023?
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by BizarroLand on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:57PM (#34314423)
Looks like with the NVIDIA 4090 we're about 1/200th of the way there for $1600, but that's with a lot of commercial markup.

I think if you had the credentials you could probably rent a server farm or a cluster of 160 Tesla v100s that would meet that requirement, although how long you would have access to that for $1,000 may be very disappointing.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by lm28469 on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:59AM (#34310366)
> It can be tricky to grasp exponential growth.

It can also be tricky to determine if something is growing exponentially, or if you're full of wishful thinking.

We landed on the moon in 69, basically haven't done anything since then.

All our passenger planes are shrink down or blown up version of a boing 707 from 1957.

You car isn't much different than cars in the 70s, and it certainly isn't flying as we were expecting them to be back then.

Musk promised fully autonomous cars "in two years" in 2012.

I'd say the pool isn't being filled any faster than it was back then, if anything it looks like someone is pumping water out of it, straight in the sewers

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by random_upvoter on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:15AM (#34311203)
Have you considered that GPT may not be at 50% but maybe still needs an exponential improvement to achieve human-like understanding?
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by nradov on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:39AM (#34312316)
An exponential improvement in GPT along the same axis will still not achieve human-like understanding. It's a very useful tool with the potential to augment or even replace human knowledge workers in many fields. But to achieve true AGI we're going to need to go in a completely different direction.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by andrewinardeer on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:13AM (#34309104)
The release of GPT-3 I believe will be looked back along the lines of a monumental advancement in line with the Trinity nuclear test.

Legislation and policy has mainly kept nuclear weapons under check, however, nuclear technology does provide us with a reasonably clean energy which is beneficial for the masses.

Perhaps regulation at some point will need to be crafted to ensure that only crippled AI or AI within a defined scope can be used for commercial purposes.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by ranting-moth on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:58AM (#34309367)
With nuclear weapons, we can very much see and feel the power and destruction they can unleash. A proof is trivial, dig it in the ground and hold your ears when it goes off.

With AI we have to debate how destructive it is. The debate itself has been weaponized. You'll be debating against deniers and AI using all the logical fallacies and information overload it can feed you.

I, being the greatest armchair expert in human behavior I know, say it will destroy democracy as we know it.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by happythebob on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:58AM (#34312554)
>I, being the greatest armchair expert in human behavior I know, say it will destroy democracy as we know it.

What's left of it after social media?

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by alfiedotwtf on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:55AM (#34308997)
> Potentially in ~100 years you could have two AIs sort out the cases.

Marty: Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly Jr was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary.

Marty: Within two hours?

Doc: The justice system works swiftly now that they've abolished lawyers.

Marty: This is heavy

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Maken on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:20AM (#34309516)
Funny how that has became real way faster than the hoverboards.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by sirsinsalot on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:44AM (#34309279)
Law is a human endeavour and should be applied with nuance and compassion.

But yeah let's just autoban via AI in real life. Sounds great.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Sander_Marechal on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:06AM (#34309879)
> for example EU flight compensation (companies like https://www.airhelp.com/en-int/)

I really don't like companies like that. EU flight compensation is really easy. Airlines have a simple webform that you fill out, and you get your money 1-2 weeks later. Companies like AirHelp make it sound like a really hard and difficult process, then take a big cut of your compensation as payment. And the SEO the crap out of it, drowning out the real claim webforms from the airlines themselves.

Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by intelVISA on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:25AM (#34310026)
GPT-3 is great at producing nonsense, so in that sense it'd be a good lawyer.
Re:GPT Takes the Bar Exam by Uristqwerty on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:35AM (#34310123)
Lawyers don't exist to decide who wins a case. It's all about making the other side show their work, prove that they have valid evidence, it was collected legally, etc. An AI might be able to find flaws in the work of a sloppy human who wasn't expecting opposition, but will it know when to stop grasping at increasingly-inane straws? If it develops a reputation for subtly misrepresenting certain laws when pressed to find some answer, after all the easy options have run out, wouldn't it be kicked out of the courtroom for wasting the legal system's time, unless you have a team of programmers on standby to keep writing output filters to censor it from repeating its mistakes? Human lawyers have to fix their behaviour or lose their licenses when caught repeating mistakes, malice, or misleading practices, I think, and current AI paradigms have immense trouble learning from small datasets.