In the first competition of its kind in China, 16 lawyers and law students battled against an artificial intelligence (AI) program to analyze a series of legal contracts, one of the most common and often tiresome tasks at law firms.
The AI program completed the task in 60 seconds and identified more risks in the contracts than lawyers, according to a report in China Daily.
The AI also scored an accuracy rate of 96% - higher than the lawyers’ score, although the test administrators did not reveal their results.
But while lawyers might be embarrassed by losing to a robot, they should feel buoyed that the best results in evaluating the five legal contracts came when AI and humans worked toge
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Dec 14, 2020