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1. troupo · 1791042692 · focus · HN ↗

   For now, courts are smart. Imagine what happens in 5-10 years

   1. serf · 1791043951 · focus · HN ↗

      >For now, courts are smart.

      that's a leap i'm unwilling to take.

      1. orwin · 1791044561 · focus · HN ↗

         Smarter than they will be in 20 years when all students will have abdicated reading to LLMs

         1. CamperBob2 · 1791045202 · focus · HN ↗

            Right now, a defendant has the option of trial by jury or trial by judge alone. It will be interesting to see how long it takes before the option of trial by AI comes into play.

            NGL, I'd take that over a jury trial any day of the week, if I were in fact innocent. Ditto for a trial by a biased or incompetent judge.

            1. mindslight · 1791049198 · focus · HN ↗

               Probably more like "arbitration by AI" as a step in "reforming" plea bargains. I think the real questions are 1. whether the AI would have to explain its reasoning, and 2. whether you would get to appeal to a regular court.
            2. Legend2440 · 1791050490 · focus · HN ↗

               Probably never. Jury trials are enshrined in the constitution.

               And people don't trust AI and don't like being judged by an algorithm.

               1. CamperBob2 · 1791058204 · focus · HN ↗

                  In the US, jury trials are a right but not a requirement. You can waive the right.
         2. Legend2440 · 1791050396 · focus · HN ↗

            This isn't going to happen.

            You've been spending too much time arguing about LLMs on the internet, and it's affected your thinking. It's just like boomers in the 70-90s worrying about the TV. But then IQ scores actually rose during those decades.

            1. orwin · 1791197946 · focus · HN ↗

               Not my experience at work. Our new developer hires have now a year and a half under their belt and still don't understand what they do. They are now able to spot style inconsistencies so there's that, but still have no understanding of our WAN, what is software defined and what is not.

               Also, our management explained to us two weeks ago how 'Access& Identity' will help us be more productive, in a slide, and read that out loud without batting an eye. I get that management often isn't the most clever, but this is a degree of stupidity that wasn't present two years ago I feel.

               Don't get me wrong, AI was great for me, it's a very good tool, but you can't tell me you understand as much of your code as you did a year ago.

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