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by cess11 18 days ago
This does not mention either interpretation or hermeneutics. For a computer to function as a lawyer it would have to be able to perform interpretation.

I would expect such an article to start there, or at least make some argument that concludes that a computer actually could perform professional legal tasks. Which I don't think they can, just as they can't do philosophy.
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plastic-enjoyer 18 days ago
> This does not mention either interpretation or hermeneutics. For a computer to function as a lawyer it would have to be able to perform interpretation.

Don't overwhelm engineers with hermeneutics

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moostee 18 days ago
AI can't do novel research either right?
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cess11 18 days ago
It depends. If you're asking whether one could set up databases and generate new information from them that helps researchers, yeah, sure, you could do that. We've been doing it for a long time by now.
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