机器人律师闪亮登场啦！

20160629ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题： 机器人律师闪亮登场啦！ 20160629ou: Lincoln: Now, artificial intelligence might be helping you with some law advice. Nick, already I’m quite apprehensive about this, you’ll have to convince me. Nick: No need to be apprehensive, it’s probably best to say at the start we’re not talking about a situation where you’ve been accused of a crime, you’re taken to court, and your lawyer is a robot, were talking about lesser offences, so specifically, the first thing that this particular artificial intelligence lawyer was set up to tackle was parking tickets, and being able to challenge the authorities when you are given a parking ticket. So it’s a ‘robo-lawyer’ and it’s aptly called ‘DoNotPay’. Lincoln: DoNotPay? Nick: That’s the name of it. So the aim of it is that you don’t have to pay the fine that you’re given if you manage to prove that your parking ticket was given unreasonably or unfairly or there were other reasons why you should not have got that in the first place. It’s completely free to use, it’s online, you just log in and it’s able to present to you all your rights, all the information that you might need to be able to challenge this decision, and you don’t have to pay the fee that you would have to pay to an actual lawyer, so it’s a big step forward for people looking to challenge rulings of this kind. Lincoln: That’s very interesting, the idea that it’s also just for, kind of, offences that are of a lower level, misdemeanors, kind of thing. Nick: I think that’s more because of the nature of it, it’s only able to give you advice on things where there are a strict set of rules that the robot can learn and then apply to your situation. Whereas if you’d robbed somebody or something it probably wouldn’t understand the nuances of the situation well enough to tell you what to do. Lincoln: I feel like that’s a bit of a grey area. Lin Shaowen: My question would be that definitely it’s sounds a kind of relief, but you know, what kind of information or evidence do I need when all of a sudden I see a notice pasted on my windscreen of the car and then at a place they call it no parking area, but does, what kind of evidence do I need to say that this is the place I can park? Nick: Well you go into this program, so at the moment it’s running in London and New York, so what it’s able to give you is the information that tells you whether you were actually wrongfully parked or not, so for example in some cases it might be unclear, like one side of the street is one thing, and the other side of the street is another, but the sign wasn’t clear, so it has this information and it’s able to give it to you so that you can make a decision. Lin Shaowen: So in that case we need, say, big screen, electric screens on the street, say, showing that this is allowed, this is forbidden, or there are more empty parking lots at the end of the street, or the other street down south, or whatever. So no information, or no assistance, was given, not enough assistance was given to me so that I can park in the legal and right way.