AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in court

Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by awb on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:21AM (#34321588)

> the company's AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells the defendant what to say in real-time, through headphones.

Based on AI’s propensity for being confidently incorrect, I’m not sure I’d want to be repeating AI output in a court of law and representing it as truth.

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by leobg on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:23AM (#34321593)

Isn’t that exactly the most important skill of a lawyer? /s

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by noduerme on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:08AM (#34322226)

It absolutely is! Because isn't the nature of eyewitness memory also to be confidently incorrect?

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by Hithredin on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:59AM (#34321834)

But this xan be be a. ery good complement to an actual layer.

The layer would spend less time preparing (so cheaper) and will basically direct the IA and act as safeguard when the AI gets so confidently incorrect.

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by akiselev on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:36AM (#34322055)

Hopefully these IA layers will still have a paralegal proofreading.

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by bamboozled on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:06AM (#34321876)

I think what's going to happen here is, almost every dispute will end in a court case, using AI (because it's cheaper).

It's going to suck so hard.

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by ww520 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:10AM (#34321899)

What if it turns out to be an actual lawyer doing the answer on the other side of the phone?

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by g_p on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:24AM (#34321984)

Then I imagine the defendant would risk enjoying a stretch in jail for contempt of court, for creating an unauthorized recording or live "streaming" of the court?

I'm not even convinced by the idea of having a person repeat what they hear through headphones - something like this could easily slow proceedings down, and that's without even going into whether or not the AI can stick to a consistent and accurate set of facts.

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by hef19898 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:11AM (#34321905)

Wasn't there something on HN frontpage lately about "fake it until you automate it"?

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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by levesque on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:48AM (#34324779)

In the meantime GPT fails the bar exam, especially the free form questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/107clau/commen...

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