By Lucy Adong
Artificial intelligence has no precise and universally accepted definition. According to Nils J. Nilsson “Artificial intelligence is that activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment.
The human measure
The difference between an arithmetic calculator for example and a human brain is not one of kind, but of scale, speed, degree of autonomy, and generality. The same factors can be used to evaluate every other instance of intelligence and to place them at some appropriate location in the spectrum.
The human measure notably, the characterization of intelligence as a spectrum grants no special status to the human brain. But to date human intelligence has no match in the biological and artificial worlds for sheer versatility, with the abilities “to reason, achieve goals, understand and generate language, perceive and respond to sensory inputs, prove mathematical theorems, play challenging games, synthesize and summarize information, create art and music, and even write histories.”This makes human intelligence a natural choice for benchmarking the progress of AI.
The chess paradigm
Chess has fascinated people for centuries. Alan Turing, who many consider the father of computer science, “mentioned the idea of computers showing intelligence with chess as a paradigm.” Without access to powerful computers, “Turing played a game in which he simulated the computer, taking about half an hour per move.” But it was only after a long line of improvements in the sixties and seventies that
chess-playing programs started gaining proficiency. AI’s eventual success in beating human players at the game of chess offered a high-profile instance for comparing human to machine intelligence.
AI vs. Lawyers: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Where a human lawyer takes weeks to do a task, an AI takes just a few seconds. Moreover, AI does not get tired, sleep, eat or drink coffee.
Evisort to reduce the time cost of the Judicial System
In 2017, four Harvard Law School students Developed a search engine called Evisort that formulates and manages drafts of law contracts that could review a 30-page contract in a 6 seconds something that could be a days work for a human lawyer
Another current study was from LawGeex compared the performance of 20 experienced United Nations lawyers to their AI systems and published a 40-page report.
Obtained results: In the daily legal risk assessment task, the highest performance among human lawyers was 94%, the lowest performance was 64%, and the average performance was 85%, while the average of AI was 94% success.
In addition, the average time required for ‘human lawyers’ for this process is 92 minutes, while the time needed by AI is 26 seconds. AI can continue this process for a long time without rest!
Human- AI Lawyer Cooperation
Leibniz, The First Lawyer to Predict the Use of Machines in Law said: ‘it is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.’
Artificial intelligence enables the human lawyer to work speedily and perform more tasks. For that reason, we shouldn’t considee AI a threat to human Lawyers but rather a tool
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