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by cess11 773 days ago
I did not. I pointed out that you assumed a similarity between human judgement in courts to technical documentation and medical diagnostics, and asked on what grounds you make this assumption.

It can't be that engineering and biology are so similar to jurisprudence, because they aren't. There has to be another reason for you to lump them together.
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_akhe 773 days ago
> human judgement

Again the human judgment is not replaced in either scenario, I'm talking about a tool the lawyer, the doctor, etc. would use.

Lawyer and doctor are often listed as comparable examples because both involve sensitive info you can't afford to get wrong, unlike creative use cases for AI like image or song generation.

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cess11 773 days ago
Not sure why you keep bringing that up instead of answering my question.

Lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time.

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_akhe 773 days ago
> Lawyer and doctor are often listed as comparable examples because both involve sensitive info

Doesn't it answer it?

> Lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time

This is a tool that helps them get it right

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cess11 772 days ago
No, it does not.

Why do you think technical documentation and medical diagnosis is similar to what judges in courts are doing?

OK, so why do lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time then, if it does?

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_akhe 772 days ago
> No, it does not.

Yeah huh.

> Why do you think medical is similar to legal

As stated, because both involve sensitive and personal information about people - unlike say, Stable Diffusion which is using AI for creative image creation etc.

> why do lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time

Because they're human. "Medical error" has been in the top 5 causes of death in the United States for several years. Our legal system is also far from perfect and could use the help - consider systemic biases and wrongly convicted people who spent their lives behind bars unfairly due to human error or bias, omissions of information, etc.

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cess11 771 days ago
So every time sensitive personal information is involved, "AI" is a good fit?

But you just said there are tools that solve this.

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