英國19歲程序員發(fā)明世界上第一個律師機器人
Free robot lawyer created by 19-year-old programmer is saving people a lot of money in legal fees
British programmer Joshua Browder is helping people save a lot of money on legal fees with his latest project – the world's first robot lawyer. The 19-year-old developed a free service that allows users to ask any kind of legal question and receive relevant answers autogenerated by bots.
英國程序員約書亞•布勞德只有19歲,他的新項目——世界上第一個律師機器人,能幫人們省下不少法律費用.用戶詢問的任何法律問題,機器人程序都可以自動生成相關答案,而且此項服務是免費的.
Browder first started the project last summer as a free website to help people appeal unfair parking tickets. He came up with the idea after getting a series of tickets himself for "trivial reasons". Having wasted several hours on writing appeals to these tickets, he realised that many people do not have the time, legal knowledge or even the energy to appeal. So he decided to create an automatic appeal generator, using previously successful letters as a template. He aptly named the service DoNotPay, given that the legal fees involved in challenging tickets could mount up to sizable amounts between $400 to $900.
這個項目去年夏天剛開始啟動,當時布勞德只是想做一個免費網(wǎng)站,幫助人們對不公平的停車罰單進行上訴.他萌生出這個想法是因為他自己就因"無關緊要的原因"被開了一連串的罰單.在浪費了幾個小時寫上訴書后,他意識到很多人并沒有時間、法律知識、甚至精力對這些罰單進行上訴.所以他決定做一個自動申訴生成器,以之前成功的申訴書為模板.鑒于對罰單進行上訴的法律費用可以達到400至900美元之多,他恰當?shù)亟o這項服務命名為"不要付錢".
DoNotPay was a huge success, and the tech genius has now gone a step further with the website, converting it into a full fledged robo lawyer equipped to help with a range of legal issues. "I realised that the best way to help people would be to create a computer program that could talk to users, generate appeals, and answer questions like a human," he told Mashable. "The robot can currently handle parking ticket appeals, payment protection insurance (PPI) claims and delayed flights/trains. It can also answer some general legal questions like 'I can't afford my ticket. What do I do?'"
