A free “Chatbot” service called “DoNotPay” has successfully appealed 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York.
The website of its creator, Joshua Browder, a 19-year-old London-born second-year Stanford University student, bills the product as the “World’s First Robot Lawyer“.
Browder has expanded his Chatbot to cover flight delays and to help those with HIV understand their rights.
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An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.
The program first works out whether an appeal is possible through a series of simple questions, such as were there clearly visible parking signs, and then guides users through the appeals process.
The results speak for themselves. In the 21 months since the free service was launched in London and now New York, Browder says DoNotPay has taken on 250,000 cases and won 160,000, giving it a success rate of 64% appealing over $4m of parking tickets.
VentureBeat has still more details in its version of the same story: The DoNotPay bot has beaten 160,000 traffic tickets — and counting
A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.
The bot was made available to New Yorkers in March. In recent years and decades, residents of The Big Apple have seen a persistent increase in traffic fines. A record $1.9 billion in traffic fines was issued by the City of New York in 2015.
Since the first version of the bot was released in London last fall, 160,000 of 250,000 tickets have been successfully challenged with DoNotPay, Browder said.
“I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society,” said Browder. “These people aren’t looking to break the law. I think they’re being exploited as a revenue source by the local government.”
Browder, who’s 19, hopes to extend DoNotPay to Seattle this fall.
Since the creation of DoNotPay, Browder has begun work on a bot to help people with HIV understand their legal rights and one to collect compensation for people whose flights were delayed beyond four hours.
He’s also creating a bot that helps refugees apply for asylum, as part of the Highland Capital summer startup accelerator program. It will utilize IBM Watson to translate from Arabic to English.
The robot lawyer guides people with an easy set of questions. Here are some examples.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Just a little bit of fine tuning and this kid can become a local hero in Chicago by putting Richard Shapiro out of business… and the peasants rejoice.
I predict that there will soon be a slew of “nuisance” lawsuits against this 19 year old kid by lawyers who want to eliminate a competitor.
Accusations of “practicing law without a license”, class action suits by people who received “bad legal advice”, etc,. are the usual methods used by lawyers to preserve their monopoly over the pocketbooks of anybody entangled with the legal system.
They will also want to strangle this baby in its crib, before he moves up the “food chain” to speeding tickets and divorces and other things that are the bread and butter of low-level lawyering.
And now robots will be building your burgers!
http://www.techinsider.io/momentum-machines-is-hiring-2016-6
Medical diagnostics, triage, and prescriptions are more efficiently performed by robots than by general practitioners.
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Robot truck drivers are safer than humans.
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Order kiosks, robot food prep, and robot servers are more cost effective than $15/hour labor.
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Robot fighter pilots can beat the best marine pilots.
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Most retail banking is handled by robot teller machines.
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Drones can deliver first class mail and light packages. Junk mail is for roller bots.
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Most stock trading is done by robots.
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https://www.khanacademy.org/ teaches more effectively than union goons.
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I bet robots can tend vineyards, pick vegetables, plant and harvest crops.
Funny how the robot-headed fan boys here are conveniently ignoring the death by tesla story.
I call for an end to science illiteracy in america. Most of these robot “takeovers” are a LONG way off. In 20 years, most of you will pretend you never made your ignorant predictions.
It will not change a damn thing.
Self driving trucks will eliminate millions of jobs,by 2024.
As far as predictions go, I predict you will slink off into the sunset “pretending you never made your ignorant predictions.”
If you think this will take 20 years, you are delusional.
Part of my prediction ALREADY came true. In the article about “otto”, the author said millions of jobs lost by 2022. Now — just a few weeks later — that is forgotten, and it is 2024.
How can bets be made? Let us document the number of jobs now, and see how the numbers change with time.
2022 highly likely
2024 near certainty
Mish, Do you have any sources to refer to, for you claims of 2024?
I believe in general, that robots are for the benefit of humans, where they can contribute, not the opposite. Unfortunately, driving is not one of them, except for part-systems like emergency braking when you are about to ram the vehicle in front of you etc. A lot of/most of office jobs are going to be replaced before trucking jobs, simply because they are more routine.
This is great!
They’ll be no real jobs to do.
Folks will retire as soon as they’re out of school.
College loans – written off by the govt.
Income – minimum basic salary paid to all by the govt.
Sounds like nirvana.
See you on the beach in Thailand!
Unfortunately the “And how many zeroes would you like to add to that?” robot is temporarily withheld due to further real world testing by qualified staff.
How soon before it argues a case before the Supreme Court?
A simple Question and Answer checklist….
Not much of a robot.
Firstly, AI does not show itself to the user, it works silently in the background and you only see the “relevant” sequence of questions. So you don’t know if its AI or not in the background.
Second, if its “merely” a series of questions and answers, the success rate shows how overpaid the lawyers are while what they are actually doing is simply rolling out a series of Q&A.
Either way, the bots are rendering a whole lot of currently-overpaid clerical / routine / repetitive jobs redundant for humans by taking them over and doing them more efficiently and with much less fuss. Time humans actually started using their brains to add real value instead of doing dead-end jobs and expecting to be paid decent wages for it.
Aside from the subject here, my ongoing poll still has those who voted for Sanders over Clinton at 2 to 1. Then this,,,,,
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-03/uncounted-true-story-california-primary
Back on subject. Imagine the possibilities when the State installs robot prosecutors? Linked directly with robot juries?
We need a robot to appeal the bank’s slow inflation confiscation of our goods.