The future of legal research assistance lawyers is zero. The job will soon vanish for all practical purposes.
Futurism reports “Ross, the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney, has its first official law firm. Baker & Hostetler announced that they will be employing Ross for its bankruptcy practice, currently comprised of almost 50 lawyers.”
Please consider Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm.
Ross: A Very Smart Artificial Co-worker
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers. According to CEO and co-founder Andrew Arruda, other firms have also signed licenses with Ross, and they will also be making announcements shortly.
Ross, “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney” built on IBM’s cognitive computer Watson, was designed to read and understand language, postulate hypotheses when asked questions, research, and then generate responses (along with references and citations) to back up its conclusions. Ross also learns from experience, gaining speed and knowledge the more you interact with it.
“You ask your questions in plain English, as you would a colleague, and ROSS then reads through the entire body of law and returns a cited answer and topical readings from legislation, case law and secondary sources to get you up-to-speed quickly,” the website says. “In addition, ROSS monitors the law around the clock to notify you of new court decisions that can affect your case.”
Ross is not authorized to practice law (at least yet). However, Ross can replace lawyers whose primary job is legal research.
Now that the first robot has been hired, a stampede to hire “Ross” will soon occur.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Hey, cool,,,the bot lawyer can represent the bot truck when it gets into an accident?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Only if they are Welsh.
Not to mention chase driverless ambulances in a driverless Uber car………
Baker & Hostetler have already fielded the first round of complaints .
It seems as though Ross hasn’t been returning client phone calls in a timely manner and has already been accused of duplicate billing his hours… (Sigh)
Ross does what all good lawyers should, he remains permanently in his crypt . So it is only to be expected that Ross will lose track of time, and the client will sooner learn not to pay him to go away, knowing that Ross will never stand under the light of day, nor appear at midnight to pick through the glazing for his feast.
But then people call in the real McCoy to sort it out afterwards, which makes me think Ross is just a stool pigeon placed to lure the insecure into the shadows, from where there is no escape until transformed.
I think the only suitable reply to this is to create a customer robot and distribute it as freeware, letting it do its job at being a virtual client, that would keep the lawyers busy, if not a little confused…
I think it was IMSLAW that was ripped off by Israel and others that put the Federal Register (before the 1980s) into it and found all the contradictions.
If Watson manages to expose Washington, it will be cyber euthanized.
…and it’s a bankruptcy practice of all things?
The bot will generate the very work it’s there to do. Gotta love the symmetric irony.
The day someone confesses their guilt to a robot and then accepts the sentence it hands out … is the day that society realizes it has been living someone else’s program since the first law was invented .
A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie. He decides to test it out at dinner one night.
The father asks his son what he did that afternoon. The son says, “I did some homework.” The robot slaps the son.
The son says, “Ok, Ok, I was at a friend’s house watching movies.”
Dad asks, “What movie did you watch?”
Son says, “Toy Story.” The robot slaps the son. Son says, “Ok, Ok, we were watching p*rn.”
Dad says, “What? At your age I didn’t even know what p*rn was.” The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, “Well, he certainly is your son.”
The robot slaps the mother.
Robot for sale…
Drop a few thousand of those into Washing-money DC and watch the fun as the whole US gubbermint gets slapped silly….
LMAO !!
Who is going to be the first robot lawyer to run for congress?
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other
A Goldman financed Cuban-Canadian robotics startup, just entered a prototype for this years Presidential election…. But some crazy human with an imperfect hairdo, beat the bot this time around. The US Defense industry backed Hildabeast bot, may prove a tougher opponent for humanity:)
Will the programmer of this lawyer bot need to understand law or do these programs eventually become able to learn anything. So is AI a learning program regardless of subject?
“Skynet became self aware……”
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Ross, “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney”
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It’s a start. Now we just have to wait for the first actually intelligent one……
Medical diagnostics has no future as well. Physicians memorize a decision tree algorithm that is better parsed by a computer. Remote sensor technology can ultimately provide the data.
For once, robots are taking the right jobs. “Human” lawyers act like robots anyway.
I’M UNWASHED, I EAT GARLIC, I HAVE LOTS OF CROSSES AND MIRRORS
Any law firm using an IBM robot is guaranteed to go bankrupt within a year. That company hasn’t had a decent development in decades. Just look at Websphere portal server. I work in IT and wouldn’t recommend IBM software for anything. Even Microsoft is better. At least they have decent games.
I don’t see why Mish can’t see through the IBM sales propaganda. If there was true potential in it the better companies like Google and Facebook would already have developed something.
i understand that the first thing they taught this “lawyer” was how to bill. His rate is $82,000 per hour! Don’t know what that translates into in actual work accomplished.
This is just the beginning, the companies that create such technologies will make a lot of money on support, subscriptions to keep the system up to date and so on. The first companies that purchase these systems will also make a lot of money.