DoNotPay has aggressively marketed itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer” — an easy way to automate small claims and lawsuits using AI. But this fantastic test of the service is mostly damning. As author Kathryn Tewson writes:
“There is literally nothing AI about this. This is a straight-up plug-and-chug document wizard, and it is not well done at all.”
As the company previously announced, the tool — which you can test here — is powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E. That means it won’t offer anything the competition can’t also provide.
What’s interesting, though, is the difference between Shutterstock and rival Getty Images, which says it plans to sue the creator of AI image generator Stable Diffusion.
So the question is: resistance or assimilation? Which works best?
But, as this report from The Information notes, can AI “pair programmer” GitHub CoPilot be a money spinner? The publication points out:
Even 10 million developers paying $100 a year would generate just $1 billion in annual revenue, a sliver of the $198 billion Microsoft reported in the fiscal year ended June 2022.
Plus, there’s also that pending class action copyright lawsuit...
That’s Christian Terwiesch, who talks through the testing process in this very readable paper.
ChatGPT is good at simple questions, bad at maths, and struggles with more complex queries. But Terwiesch also admits to developing “an emotional attachment” to the software and giving it hints.
Even so, it seems society is going to have to adapt to ChatGPT’s ability to automate knowledge work, just as we adapted to calculators’ ability to automate maths.
See also: ChatGPT takes the bar exam and a medical exam.
[Mack Institute for Innovation Management]
I hate Twitter forcing its algorithmic timeline on us, but I love that it helped me find @DefStan480 — or “Standard Definition Gaming” — a rolling clip-show of old PC and console games.
The account posted a few Unreal Tournament (1999) videos recently and it was like Proust’s madeleine for me. One look and I was instantly transported back to my childhood PC, racking up multi-kills with the sniper rifle on Facing Worlds. Memories!
I’m not a huge chess player, but I’ll noodle around on Chess.com with the bots every now and again. The latest addition to the platform’s roster is Mittens: a kitten who will destroy your will to live, grinding you into the dust while quoting Nietzsche. The Wall Street Journal has the story.
