Racist Robots Are Replacing Lawyers | The Daily Show With Trevor Noah

[@misc.3973]

Ronny Chieng is QUICKLY becoming a favorite of mine, he has excellent timing :P

[@ywoulduchoosetousethis]

Somebody needs to put him in a movie. Dramatic. The timing thing is dynomite

[@infinityinfinityinfi]

Ronny Chang is the funniest Daily Show correspondent right now IMO.

[@darkabdoman]

If they ever fired Trevor, Chang for the host

[@NgataNare]

Jay Be he is hilarious! Especially when he gets mad

[@thereader4057]

I suggest stephen colbert.

[@pushpakgupta7396]

i have watched all ronny's videos now...give mmmmmmoooooooooorrrrrrreeeeeeeeee

[@gummykangaroo]

I love this guy. He is always so passive aggressive. That's the spirit!

[@---kp1hm]

I feel really bad for anyone this guy interviews.

[@abdulrahimjalloh8469]

😂😂so true

[@wunnell]

I have a feeling they know what to expect going in. I doubt that they're conned into thinking that it will be a standard, non-comedic interview.

[@doshyantrajalthiruchelvans5650]

Yeah

[@andreamai]

“I’m gonna sue all these robots.” Funny enough if they grant robots human rights then maybe you can 😂

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

" hard working...money grubbing, human lawyer.."😂😂😂 fine! go and make judge Dredd, why dont you all!?

[@aimanbryan1424]

In South Africa robots are traffic lights

[@abbigailk8420]

True😂

[@asekhoayaphindadlanga8241]

Very true...

[@jusththatuser]

Zambia too

[@bkxornam]

hahahaha i found out the hard way

[@terencenekhwalivhe6004]

You're right 😂😂😂

[@IphegeniaRose]

"I'm going to sue all these robots...." lol

[@serzhanurazbayev3826]

4:21 "you cant handle the data" I see what you did there 🤣

[@ludo5475]

"My existence, well grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves life's" but with a cold, robotic voice was the best part IMHO

[@johannestonnies7898]

can't handle the doot

[@wrightvcx2249]

@@johannestonnies7898 Can't handle the suit

[@pranayr9284]

Honourable Alexa😂😂😂

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Honorable "Judge Dredd" Alexa

[@j4g094]

the case of the racist rulings shows that a machine (for years to come) will only ever be as good as the programming it's running on. You feed them not only data but the means to analyze said data and if those means are flawed then the machine has no way of ever overcoming those flaws on its own.

[@ssddsquare]

True

[@a2falcone]

Another problem is that in law you shouldn't analyze all the data in all the cases with the same standards. Yes, the law is the same for all, but applying it to the particular case with the same logic everytime leads to unfair results, because the law, as a human creation, is unperfect and can't provide a good solution to every imaginable hypothesis.

[@regcla6667]

True

[@Hexanitrobenzene]

@j4g0 I think you misunderstand how current state of the art AI - neural networks - work. Programmers construct blank network with no knowledge. Then they feed it data and it learns, for example, to classify it. Facebook tried that with chatbot and they had to turn it off because it became... racist. This does not mean that programmers put implicit bias into code. This means that data - chats of facebook users - was biased, i.e, racist.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Like people then - they have a hard time recognising and overcoming their prejudices too.

[@elliotw4606]

Never thought I'd see the day where Justice Alexa brought back a Furby from the dead. XD

[@xyxuz123]

“Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly, Jr. was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary! Within two hours?”

[@aifaazquazi2974]

He tried to high five that tech expert😂😂

[@aifan6148]

😂 Alexa, turn off! On a side note, maybe we will have robot criminals too? 🤣 #BostonDynamics

[@HesteBremse]

Yes that is very likely indeed and it might already be the case for the current level in AI - The frame of which the AI is set to operate within is determined by the Human(s) that has created the AI - I you are a Hacker or do other cybercrime, your AI could very well be set to work within this parameter or frame = Criminal AI or if it has a body of some sort then yes a criminal robot.

[@Zetsuke4]

well hackers are developing AI self-growing virus

[@HesteBremse]

@Meijer Nelly Surely that is the bigger gamble of the whole AI development - They expect that AI´s will make huge scientifical steps and solutions that it would otherwise take intellectual and scientific groups years to accomplish - But it is never the less a gamble - exactly as you say - AI´s might create their own languages and has already done that. A hugely powerful AI with full connection to the net could essentially infect a whole lot of computers and systems with a "virus" in a language we don't know.

[@mayabc333]

I'm hoping to be a lawyer, and this is kind of scary.

[@dantedmc716]

Did you heard about Alexa's creepy laugh? 😲

[@mahdiezazmaswood6501]

'Natural Justice' can never be rendered via one that is utterly 'logical' in all senses. None just can't put legal professionals like that, we have yet to reach that phase of advancement!

[@LLawrah]

Ronny sounds like a mobster. 😍

[@kinngrimm]

If you can teach them to take pitty on us imperfect beings, that may convince me that this would be all a good way to go.

[@laurahenke]

That Furby got me.

[@MM-zw8sm]

Guy, is a hero.

[@sebo641]

That last part was so ominous holy shit

[@EmporerRoman]

You Cant Handle the DATA!!!

[@cheaterman49]

« I... I-I mean... I-I'm personally offended, but I stand by my software. » - Developers in a nutshell :-D

[@ERCZ-4]

GIVE US MORE RONNY!! NOW!!

[@jopmens6960]

I can't wait to be able to appeal millions of times in an hour

[@mosman12]

Alexa turn off.. lol nice one.

[@jasminechen5409]

Vow, so creative! Love it!

[@shaykespeeer7040]

Everyone thinks that A.I. and robotics is only going to wipe out retail and service jobs. Guess what.... lawyers, accountants, bankers, teachers and many, many other careers that require higher educations are going to be wiped out. Prepare yourselves.

[@residentidiot9694]

calm yourselves the only thing robots will take over is physical labour. The rest is complicated for the so called AI.

[@edwincar8890]

Discounting retail and other frontline service jobs(which take up like half of the US workforce), Most physical labour jobs are safe from automation. There are serious engineering and cost issues that prevent today's line cooks, assembly workers, firefighters, janitors and lumberjacks from being replaced completely by robots. And we've mostly reached that plateau already. No venture capitalist is going to invest billions designing an ultra high tech logger to replace cheap lumberjacks. Meanwhile replacing white collar jobs is just a software challenge which the massive computing industry is going to work on anyway.

[@emmaheart371]

How can you replace a teacher with a robot?

[@bhlacks]

Its happening in investment industry, all of those investment managers being replaced by complicated algorithm

[@iParawhoran]

i’ll be dead by then

[@zacyan2893]

Lol this guy is stupidly funny... I like it

[@JoshAndBooze]

It's ok to offer some legal advise online. But I''m afraid the programmers building these AIs are emotional, too. And the design of their algorithms will be build on personal beliefs. And once you go into neural networks and Deep Learning you basically have no control over the outcome of the data anymore.Funny how they pointed out how AI is emulating human beviour and thus human racism. Also, very scary...

[@Khalkara]

JoshAndBooze That sounds pretty conspiracy theory-esque to me. The AI's simply drawing a conclusion based on the described action of person X. The context, and how that correlates to what is described in the law as illegal. If the descsription does not fit, then the AI will conclude the person to be not guilty & can demonstrate why.

[@JT-jt2id]

JoshAndBooze I'm not the best at computers but im 98.76% sure thats not how it works. And as for the programmers being emotional part: you do realise they're probably just designing a system to search for markers that increase the risk and that those markers will be decided based on currently available scientiffic data. The programmers would have to intentionally ignore facts in order for their emotions to be a problem.

[@a2falcone]

The problem of AI lawyers wouldn't be them having emotions, but the lack of emotions. The abilities required to apply law include empathy, emotional intelligence, intuition and more. Lawyers need emotions, just like any other humanities professional.

[@a2falcone]

Khalkara, the thing is that knowing what the law says (or giving the law a meaning, really) and seeing if a situation fits into a legal description, is not a mechanical process solved with some kind of mathematical logic. That is the hard stuff. Doing that is basically all what the legal profession is about.

[@Khalkara]

Andrés Falcone Can you elaborate? Because the way I see it, if you had a unfairly received a parking ticket because you parked on the wrong spot supposedly, say in front of a certain building. And whilst the law says you indeed can't park in front of such a building UNLESS it is past 18:00, assuming you would explain to the lawyer AI that you were parked there from 18:30 to 19:00 or whatever then the AI should be able to make an objective case that this person is not guilty based on that. I don't see where having emotion becomes a positive/negative, especially in regards to a profession that is supposed to be about objectivity.

[@Worldtraveler75]

"You can't handle the data" :))))

[@kofikoranteng1447]

I was depressed today and the daily show just put my frown upside down

[@dragoldanime3573]

Lawyer represent your voice in the court,having a robot lawyer does it mean that your a robot or do you want a robot to control your life. A lawyer does not just provide legal documents, he need to have to ability to use those legal document to his advantage. A robot could not tell what is right and what is wrong,all it could do is lay down the fact whenever it to be in your advantage or disadvantage.

[@kennymartin5976]

Dragold Anime That doesn't mean that the potential of these AI should be ignored. They can search through thousands of legal documents in minutes saving precious time and money on the logistical/clerical side of legal council. This can lead to much fairer trials as it means less mistakes will be made when it comes to by the book type stuff and things like precedent.

[@---kp1hm]

That's better. If there's evidence against you, maybe you aren't innocent. But I do reckon these robots do know what is in your favour, so, I don't know.

[@---kp1hm]

Kenny Martin see CGP Grey's video "humans need not apply". It has some great stuff about this.

[@dragoldanime3573]

Kenny Martin I Guess you right on that fact but what if your client is not innocent enough, you still need to produce “legal” documents to win his case. That is what a lawyer is paid to do.

[@hittingyouoverthehead]

That's exactly what I was thinking. A machine cannot look at the intricacies of the law and suggest loopholes for you to escape out of like a real lawyer can. This 'robot' is basically just a glorified search engine for laws. I am sure that is not very hard to create.

[@mantsokoselemela9114]

I love his accent.

[@MCorpReview]

Furbies in the jury nice!

[@rodesvilobo8670]

i love Ronnie

[@bttrade6286]

That's a pretty scary reality/future if you think about it, with your fate and life judged and determined by a machine.

[@notapplicable4567]

When yall gunna use robots to end world hunger

[@godlaydying]

Why was there a jury if the judge was ruling on the case?

[@mementomori1509]

No one's gonna mention anything about those "A few good men" references?! awww =(

[@elishaminor2900]

Great skit

[@amdadh8773]

I find it 100% real rather than a reality show or comedy show 🥵😂😂😂😂

[@srikantholuguthula2190]

naild it.......

[@iiixszi2749]

He is also cute... 😚

[@arturasp9738]

I think it is logical that if the law is same for all then the lawyers also should be same for all.

[@priyanshu1022]

Dont take preasure if tesla failed contributing fee electricity So he will also failed

[@themadplotter]

Cinco e-Trial. Just click "no evidence"

[@Gamenetreviews]

Inb4 unfeeling code is “racist”, this is the only way to end bias in our legal system, just because you don’t like its outcomes doesn’t make it racist. This will also happen in finance and loan assessment, the last 40 years of attempted political correctness in legal and finical outcomes will die by unfeeling code.

[@Ensensu2]

There goes my dream of putting a dog through law school.

[@azkamil]

The cake is a lie!

[@frankewanmale4067]

your rage amuses me.

[@JerryYeo]

your jokes make me laugh out loud and I don't do that much at all

[@YawMoney]

What's the website? The legal free one

[@lovingcompassion]

Did anyone else's Alexa sound off during the clip? freaky hahaaa

[@shaazg8227]

😂 awesome

[@yemarn9470]

Sound like Vulcan 😂😂

[@T_2966]

One word. Singularity. Think before you give everything to AIs just cause it’s more efficient.

[@BS-vm5bt]

As a computer scientist I am happy that my job wont be replaced by automation. because no computer scientist wants to replace their own jobs.

[@Sahilbc-wj8qk]

May be?

[@cedrickmichaelinganji4822]

You said Ronny is a lawyer

[@rochester212]

I truly hope the so called legal profession is replaced by bots. I don't see how they could do any worse than the actual lawyers.

[@adihrespati]

How does one direct a bit like this? Is there a script? Did Ronny really catch the interviewee off guard?

[@abdiaziizhaydar3527]

Few good robots 😂😂😂😂

[@radhakrishna1845]

I am one of those serious about empowering judiciary with AI...

[@radhakrishna1845]

Robots cannot be racist.... Robots have no emotions.. Humans suffer from emotions of different flavours and colours... I may be wrong..... You maybe right..... Let us work with love peace and happiness for all.....

[@Mzwambedu]

Alexa, save this to my meme folder

[@ouroboroscycle]

Robots for president

[@altrag]

We've already got a soulless uncanny-valley failure who makes unpredictable decisions based on logic we don't fully comprehend and probably needs a couple decades more work before he can be considered to have human-level intelligence.

[@BergenDev]

Bender from Futurama would be a better president..

[@carlosmorgado7518]

This is utterly ridiculous

[@vietnamesepronounce8154]

Ronny puts on a nice accent

[@Bald_Monkey]

who writes this? that alexa part was good.

[@subhasmitaswain6950]

What r they thinking ...after all those robot help and stuff now they r gonna judge us ...

[@fadel_rama]

Sybil system is coming!!!

[@tristanmoller9498]

I wonder if artificial intelligence will have merci

[@HesteBremse]

That is a very tricky question - For pure logic there is no merci, mathematic dose not include Merci or similar concepts. On the other hand the AI´s will be set up by humans to being with and what they define as the AI´s frame or human relations parameters will determine if such a concept as Merci is to be included or if it at all can be included. Merci is based on empathic understanding - like forgivenes. To forgive someone means that they essentially have done something wrong or caused harm to another person - If the person deserves merci will depend on circumstances - These can be related to moment of when the wrong was done and/or they can related to a persons history. If an AI will be capable to weigh in such a narrow balanced decision is a very good question. Some parameters will be ""fairly easy"" to set up - like if we are talking about young kids, an AI can learn most of the difference between a child and a grown up because of knowledge database and age. But e.g if a 16 year old teenager goes rouge with an AR15 and shoots his or her classmates and at the same it is found out that the teenager have been severely abused at home, thus being bullied extremely by the class mates, then it all starts to become a very difficult balance act to judge. Can an AI find the right judgement for such a scenario ?

[@MultiSurfa]

Dude no thats the reason that they use robots, so no judge will have mercy or the opposite.

[@SuperKako17]

No, but it will have thanks.

[@rthomas201011]

I'm sure eventually he will make me laugh. In the mean time I'll keep playing videos while I take a dump.

[@dewaldt8104]

Well this is most likely going to lead to more job creation than it destroyes.

[@ArtOfShannonLee]

As a 3rd year law student I find thus hilarious xD

[@ronharris91]

The algorithms will develop a bias over time

[@cs-mi8ur]

But less bias than humans. It can be made more efficient with better data and adopted learning model.

[@nikronic]

One interesting thing you can see is that they said the judge robots were racist. It means that the data provided to these robots contains racist judgments! So, guess!

[@Olakusibe]

Lol ... Feels like a Black Mirror episode

[@Splendidtrucker1235]

Wenn ich nochmal Werbung für WIX hier bekomme, dann zerstöre ich das Internet!!!!! :-)

[@rochester212]

I hate robots and overpaid software engineers, but i hate lawyers a whole lot more, so bring on the bots!

[@hamishr5726]

i hate you too

[@peterpiper7441]

I'm a software engineer and I know plumbers and mechanics who make more than I do.

[@nartouzumaki8232]

when will he finally get his own show !!!? better hurry up

[@kobiromano6115]

2:15 don't you trust this guy for no reason?

[@Sand8056]

In south Africa they call traffic lights robot 😂

[@a2falcone]

HAHAHAHAHA... that AI doesn't replace a lawyer. It's just a helper. A legal Siri. Anyone who has studied law would know that it's not a discipline that can be mastered by AI. Law isn't like math or natural sciences. Laws aren't the kind of rules were you can obtain a certain consequence from a situation. You have to interpret the law, the situation, add your own reasoning, weigh opposite rules, principles and values, etc.

[@aaronmcculloch8326]

So you are saying that a lawyer needs to evaluate massive quantities of data, apply context and variables to produce a detailed analysis? Then apply the results of the analysis in an adversarial framework? Yep all skills no AI will never learn!

[@pejbartolo1483]

If ai can replace doctors, I don't see why it can not replace lawyers.

[@a2falcone]

Actually not. The only massive amount of data that lawyers usually handle is jurisprudence, and there's plenty of software to help with that. You usually work with small amounts of data. A short phrase with multiple possible interpretations. The balance of principles that reflect values (and by value I don't mean a number). A judgment where you have to put yourself in the place of another person, to see how a reasonable person would react, or to understand their interests (even emotional interests). A LOT of human interaction. A lot of thought with philosophical basis. We're probably not far from AIs that can do most of those operations, but the results would rely in the values a programmer from his computer thought were more important, that is, a pre-judgment, and not in a case-by-case analysis and weighing of those values. The results would be considered weird and unfair by us humans, and the society wouldn't accept such system as legitimate. You know, in the XIX century there was this idea that judges were mere operators that just applied to the particular case general solutions predetermined by the law, just like robots... but that idea had a shocking fail when faced with the reality that law by itself isn't enough to solve a case, there are contradictions, voids and value judgements everywhere: you need wisdom, good judgment or whatever you call it, a quality that only humans have, where intuition, empathy and emotional intelligence play a big role.

[@a2falcone]

1. Doctors deal with matters of natural science, where everything works with mathematical logic. Everything is correct or false, every phenomenon has a certain result. All is predetermined by the rules of nature. When this kind of reasoning leads to mistakes, it's because a certain rule of nature hasn't been discovered yet. Machines can handle that, provided that the correct rules of nature and the facts can be reduced to numbers in an objective process (easier said than done). Lawyers deal with law, which is a social construct. Even though we know all the rules (we created them, after all), they provide no certain results. Everything can be analyzed from another point of view. A single phrase or situation may have multiple valid interpretations from a purely logic point of view. Values are of the order of the day. Machines can't handle that. 2. AI hasn't replaced doctors, it has become a tool for them (and for lawyers too.) 3. Doctors take important ethical decisions and have a lot of human interaction. Health is not something purely physical. Machines can't deal with that.

[@pejbartolo1483]

Andrés Falcone lawyers rely on previous supreme court rulings or same case scenarios. They rely on what is the written law. It would be easier to ai legal system than medicine. Law is supposed to be blind, meaning that if you committed an offense, taking into account the mitigating factors, a person should get the same punishment as a person who did the same offense of the same circumstances. Unfortunately, law as it is today, the poor gets harsher sentence than a rich guy who can avail of good lawyers. The USA has 1 % incarceration rate, meaning there are 30+ million inmates at any given time. That is twice the number of the runner up. I am sure it is a broken system.

[@Ming1975]

That's not going to replace lawyers!!! Just going to replace the over emotional humans who throw logic and common sense out the window. In fact, I think lawyers are going to end up using these robots to process faster.

[@petegromov9037]

Black? LOCK HIM UP. White? Home for dinner.

[@aqua-mina]

Robots ruling in favor of robots rather than in humans, preposterous!

[@Anjula321]

This is the plot of Psycho-Pass

[@immanuelabbam6902]

I don’t know if It’s me but does this video reminds me of will Smith’s iRobot

[@tronghuoa1437]

These robots should have learning capabilities otherwise they are fully dependand on the set of algorithm created by human.

[@salmay.2186]

They do AI = Machine Learning But they need to be fed with Data Thats either controlled by humans or you let the robot sort out his own data

[@yuukifenia1611]

I really wish you guys would stop skimming this topic and sensationalizing it too much. You cut off the part that matters the most which is that AI isn't good enough to do complicated things like the whole legal process yet and don't seem like they will be soon. They can help optimize a lot of processes but the problem is that they're binary generally or programmed logic and think about how inconsistent Human emotions and logic which are a double edged sword are. Every part of our lives are imbued with that and without that AI cannot completely replace humans. At that point they are just supplementing them and are just another tool to use for a specific task.

[@ssddsquare]

Looking at staggering number of wrongful convictions in America... Not to mentioned the corruption, racist, incompetence... I think human is not any better at the job anyway.

[@ArtOfShannonLee]

You guys, this is a comedy channel. Robots aren't replacing lawyers (yet, at least). This is good for me because my law degree has be about $60,000 in dept and I need to be able to get a job to pay off those student loans haha!

[@yuukifenia1611]

Shannon Lee Agreed lol. I'm in Game Development learning about AI and its a miracle to get these kinds of AI working and sometimes a feat of luck lol. The other side is that it's the one field where humans never really know how to do or what to change so a lot of it is slowed by us. We'll have jobs for a long time however, we might have different roles and responsibilities and more satisfying positions for people. Would it really be a crime if all the employees who hate working in Fast Food disappeared and found a different job that they might find a bit more interesting?

[@ariallelee5917]

I totally pro robot judges, because they cannot be bribed and have no racial prejudice.

[@ecarghtiaf]

Would Tom Robinson be allowed to walk free if we used bots?

[@eltonjohn204]

cant stop laughing

[@boxertest]

Hmmm interesting

[@zealousprogrammer4539]

AI can be the best lawmakers why? we cannot bribe them (for now I guess) :)

[@fredsalfa]

Hilarious

[@mrmackay8353]

This could happen! 😂😂