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by xyzelement 1266 days ago
Bar exam is not a test of sentience but of the ability to recall, interpret, and apply the law. Because law is an entirely textual thing, I would expect GPT to be exceedingly well suited for it.

I've said for a long time that most doctors and lawyers are just databases with quick and imperfect retrieval.
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booleandilemma 1266 days ago
And so as AI advances, the goal posts for what counts as intelligence are moved yet again.
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andsoitis 1263 days ago
Maybe a useful way to think about it is that we don't know for sure what intelligence is nor how the gradient of intelligence expresses itself. For instance, does a human grow in intelligence as it ages (a baby doesn't "know" stuff, but has the capacity for learning and then applying in new situations as its experience grows).

I interpret your statement as implying that ChatGPT is somewhere on the spectrum of intelligence, yes?

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forgetfulness 1266 days ago
Maybe the "talk about your issue and get a diagnosis" area of practice (internal medicine?); since far less sophisticated manual labor can't yet be automated, surgeons are going to be irreplaceable for longer than, say, BI, and many backend or frontend developers.
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phpisthebest 1266 days ago
If House taught me anything it is that People Lie, and you do not have to talk to patients to diagnose them /s
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VBprogrammer 1266 days ago
I wonder if people could be more honest with a sub-sentient AI than they could be with a real life doctor. I bet they currently are more honest in their Google searches than they are with the doctor.
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w1nst0nsm1th 1266 days ago
In english based common law system, a judge can take an original decision on a specific case, such decision entering then the rules of law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#Basic_principles_of...

An AI based on a statistic algorithm (that what AI are) would not be able to make such a decision.

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dumbfounder 1266 days ago
If that's all a lawyer needs to do then AI should be able to take over large portions of the law process. I saw a dystopian short recently that explored this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PleaseHold
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