AI Raises the Bar
Stanford University Junior Joshua Browder's AI Legal chatbot DoNotPay has purportedly helped defeat 375,000 parking tickets over the last two years and is now available nationwide, according to The Verge . TechCrunch reports that IBM's Watson technology has been offered to DoNotPay for free to enable users to express questions using natural language. Should attorneys worry that AI will replace them? Not according to the ABA's Litigation News . Indeed, although large firms are retaining various AI systems for tasks such as due diligence, lease abstraction, and contract analysis, at least one firm characterizes those systems as supplemental tools to help attorneys produce results faster, learn more quickly, and improve - not to replace them. Which raises the question - is the potential to generate more legal work truly limitless? At least from an output perspective , DoNotPay would seem to suggest it might be. Below is a hastily-generated sample. Interestingly, the ...