Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service center

(bjinternetcourt.gov.cn)

51 points | by Mzperx 1684 days ago

11 comments

  • smdz 1684 days ago
    The title is missing the point..

    It says "... to be used for the completion of “repetitive basic work” only..."

    That is what most software automation attempts to do!

  • yorwba 1684 days ago
    The original press release has a bit more information on the implementation: https://www.bjinternetcourt.gov.cn/cac/zw/1562291071463.html

    The "virtual AI judge" has a collection of 120 frequently asked questions. Based on keywords in user input, it picks one of the predetermined answers and uses speech synthesis to have an avatar read it out. So, a chat bot.

    More useful is probably the "mobile court", which is supposed to enable filing a suit online and participating in hearings via video conference. The avatar is only a small part of that.

    They've also opened a shop on Taobao, which seems absurd to me, but they seem to be very enthusiastic about it.

  • azinman2 1684 days ago
    It’s not actually a judge. Title is misleading.
    • snaky 1684 days ago
      > Title is misleading

      As in most of the cases when AI is involved, and most of the cases when China is involved.

      • toxicFork 1684 days ago
        Let's develop a machine learning algorithm which can decide the likelihood of misleading title by checking what contexts are involved
        • misterman0 1684 days ago
          Before we have developed a machine learning algorithm which can decide what contexts are involved in a corpus by checking which words are included, and in what order and within what subcontext?
          • toxicFork 1684 days ago
            Maybe.
            • misterman0 1684 days ago
              I like your reasoning, it is worthy of both karma and LOL's.
        • snaky 1684 days ago
          Good old list of hype-words is enough.
    • Mzperx 1684 days ago
      At the official website, they also refer to it as AI judge. Besides that, it is using facial recognition and voice recognition through WeChat running on mobile devices.
      • yorwba 1684 days ago
        Neither facial recognition nor voice recognition nor WeChat are mentioned anywhere.
  • marsRoverDev 1684 days ago
    We in the west are already using this for bail decisionmaking - this one is used in the US.

    https://www.equivant.com/northpointe-suite/

    On another note, why is there always a push to "humanise" the system with some bullshit robot? It's completely unnecessary. What it boils down to is some weighted matrices doing mathematical work. I would argue that if it was used by a human judge to aid their judgement, mixed in with their prior experience. I would argue that in a lot of cases it is going to make them question their own biases if the system is designed to be race blind and only using the salient facts.

  • tomohawk 1684 days ago
  • waterdownship 1684 days ago
    I just realized the url and title for this entry changed..
  • est 1684 days ago
    > litigation reception and online guidance

    tl;dr chat bots.

    • Mzperx 1684 days ago
      Chatbots is a rather vague/broad way of describing this. It's a lot more than that. It's a combination of AI, Facial Recognition, Voice Recognition, Social Media (WeChat) ... Apparently, it has a visual appearance based on one of the real judges.
  • katakuchi 1684 days ago
    Wow, clickbait on HN.

    So basically the justice department is using 'AI' or rather Machine Learning/Classification powered tooling to aid in their work. Reminds me of the engineer who wrote a chatbot to handle claims on a parking fines in NewYork: https://qz.com/719888/an-ai-powered-chatbot-has-overturned-1...

    Aka: "AI-Powered Robot-Lawyer now winning cases in New York City and London Metropole".

  • mortdeus 1684 days ago
    1 year later, China becomes a communist utopia. Can hardly keep the rest of the world out

    Who would have known that the only thing you needed to do to make communism work is to take the human element out all the way up to the top? Sounds like communism and terminators were made for each other.

    • duaoebg 1684 days ago
      In death everyone is equal.
    • john_minsk 1684 days ago
      Don't worry. They will have white list for top of the top
    • mortdeus 1684 days ago
      heh, at least i have my idea for the slackjaw humor competition
  • warofthewontons 1684 days ago
    the internet of wechat
    • Mzperx 1684 days ago
      Exactly. See you later open web.
    • datenhorst 1684 days ago
      we-nternet