Law firm set to offer "robot" lawyers
posted Nov 10th 2005 6:00PM
South African law firm Buys Inc. plans to introduce a trio of "robot" lawyers next year designed to offer online legal advice to customers, Business Day reports. We've got to admit we were a bit disappointed when we realized the so-called robots (named Stacey, Dave and Nathan) were just AI software and not bona fide nuts-and-bolts bots ready to bust out all Johnny Cochrane-style in the courtroom but, hey, you gotta start somewhere. While the virtual lawyers will initially be charged only with answering basic questions and presenting training material, the law firm sees a bright future for the artificial attorneys, who may one day be able to offer quicker turnaround times and, most importantly, lower legal fees than their human counterparts.
Can we get an attorney that doesn't look like a game show host or punk rocker wannabe?
Make it looke like William Shatner, I'd trust him as my lawyer.
Aren't they the sitepal characters?
http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal2/whatis/whatis/
(Warning! There are annoying speaking characters on that page. You might want to turn down your volume.)
What a horrible idea.
Number 5: Careful, man. You're talking about things so nasty the Geneva Conventions haven't dared discuss them... Damn, BSDs.
those are the figures from that desktop friend software(i forget the name) where u can customize the character.
Wouldn't it be better for people to learn how to use search engines?
http://www.nolo.com
@Number5: well, do you want to try an AI politician?
http://www.puppetpresident.net/index.html
(read the 'about' session on the site first)
http://www.bushbot.ath.cx/index.php
(this is a parody mostly, not a real chatterbot)
Wow, Lawyers with a soul, albeit digital, but it's a first.
I've been claiming for years that lawyers are robots with exceptionally large software theasaurus' embeded, but at least this new development gives the practice a human feel. Who knows, maybe i'll even get a deffinitive answer, rather than a lesson in Latin.
These software based robots (as opposed to the hardware based normally encountered) are infinatly usefull, however, i'm concerned about the potential disaster of an endless loop occuring of software lawyers discussing the ligitimacy of a contract because of a miss-placed semi-colon.
Why do you say "Thank God they are white"?
You are a racist.
Your post should be taken off.