For the first time in history, a “robot” will be used to replace a lawyer and advise the defendant during a court hearing. According to the American website New Scientist, in February this year, an artificial intelligence (AI) will run on a smartphone and will participate in the hearing, helping to instruct the defendant on what to say, through the headset.
The location of the court and the name of the customer are being kept confidential by DoNotPay, the company that created the AI. But he revealed to the site that the defendant is being accused of speeding and that he will receive instructions from the “robot” through his headset. The case is being considered a test by the company, which has committed to paying any fines, says DoNoPay founder Joshua Browder.
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Of course, using a cell phone or computer, let alone connected to an in-ear device, inside a courtroom is considered illegal in many countries, but the company has found a place that allows this configuration, reveals Browder to New Scientist. “It’s technically within the rules, but I don’t think it’s in the spirit of the rules.”
According to the businessman, AI was recently used to intermediate contact with customer service at a bank and would have successfully reversed several bank fees on its own.
“It’s the most mind-blowing thing we’ve ever done. It was only $16 [R$ 84] which we reversed, but that was a perfect job for the AI. Who has time to waste for $16?” says Joshua Browder.
DoNotPay launched in 2015 as a relatively simple chatbot service that provided legal advice, especially in the consumer area, using a lot of boilerplate conversation. The company started to focus more on AI in 2020 when the OpenAI platform released a publicly available programming interface for people to use the skills of GPT-3, the language processing artificial intelligence.
Browder says it took a long time to “train” the DoNotPay “robot” with the myriad laws and case law needed to make it useful. The company’s AI app now covers a number of legal topics, including immigration law. To New Scientist, the businessman says that his AI would have helped in about three million cases in the US and the UK.
The listening tool has also been tweaked so that it doesn’t always and automatically react to utterances. “Sometimes silence is the best answer,” jokes Browder. According to him, the goal is to make the software eventually replace the need for lawyers.
“It’s all about language, and that’s what lawyers charge hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour for. There will still be a lot of good lawyers out there who can work at the European Court of Human Rights, but many are charging money to copy and paste documents and I think they will definitely be replaced. They must be replaced”, comments the founder of DoNotPay to the American website.
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