英国19岁程序员发明世界上第一个律师机器人
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.
英国程序员约书亚•布劳德只有19岁,他的新项目——世界上第一个律师机器人,能帮人们省下不少法律费用.用户询问的任何法律问题,机器人程序都可以自动生成相关答案,而且此项服务是免费的.
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.
这个项目去年夏天刚开始启动,当时布劳德只是想做一个免费网站,帮助人们对不公平的停车罚单进行上诉.他萌生出这个想法是因为他自己就因"无关紧要的原因"被开了一连串的罚单.在浪费了几个小时写上诉书后,他意识到很多人并没有时间、法律知识、甚至精力对这些罚单进行上诉.所以他决定做一个自动申诉生成器,以之前成功的申诉书为模板.鉴于对罚单进行上诉的法律费用可以达到400至900美元之多,他恰当地给这项服务命名为"不要付钱".
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?'"
