How many similar ‘fakes’ are getting by the judges? (This is the area of law you specialize in and you didn’t check citations you have never seen before?)
This Prolific LA Eviction Law Firm Was Caught Faking Cases In Court. Did They Misuse AI?
Dennis P. Block and Associates, which describes itself as California’s “leading eviction law firm,” was recently sanctioned by an L.A. County Superior Court judge over a court filing the judge found contained fake case law.
Block’s firm was ordered to pay $999 over the violation. That’s $1 below the threshold that would have required the firm to report the sanction to the state bar for further investigation and possible disciplinary action.
Imagine hundreds (thousands?) of these things overhead. And you thought we weren’t ready for driverless cars…
China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous, passenger-carrying air taxis
… U.S.-listed Ehang claims it’s the first in the world to get such a certificate, which allows it to fly passenger-carrying autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in China.
The certificate will also significantly simplify the company’s ability to get similar certificates for commercial operation in the U.S., Europe and Southeast Asia, CEO Huazhi Hu told CNBC in a video conference interview.
“Next year we should start to expand overseas,” he said, noting those regulators still need to establish a process for mutual regulation of the Chinese airworthiness certification. That’s according to a CNBC translation of his Mandarin-language remarks.
… A significant difference between self-driving taxis and self-piloting drones is that while cars on the road must make turns at intersections, a drone flight is between two points in the air, Ehang’s CEO said.
Read this one with a grain of salt. I think the doom is overdone. Will some people be left behind? Sure. Some people haven’t learned to use computers yet.
A tech warning: AI is coming fast and it’s going to be rough ride
… “It’s important for everybody to understand how fast this is going to change,” said Eric Schmidt, the former CEO and chairman of Google, during a conversation Wednesday evening with Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School about what’s just over the horizon in AI. “It’s going to happen so fast. People are not going to adapt.”
The pace of improvements is picking up. The high cost of training AI models, which is time consuming, is coming down very quickly, and output quality will be far more accurate and fresher than it is today, said Schmidt.
But “the negatives are quite profound,” he added. AI firms still have no solutions for issues around algorithmic bias or attribution, or for copyright disputes now in litigation over the use of writing, books, images, film, and artworks in AI model training. Many other as yet unforeseen legal, ethical, and cultural questions are expected to arise across all kinds of military, medical, educational, and manufacturing uses.
Most concerning are the “extreme risks” of AI being used to enable massive loss of life if the four firms at the forefront of this innovation, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, are not constrained by guardrails and their financial incentives are “not aligned with human values,” said Schmidt, who served as executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, from 2015 to 2018, and as technical adviser from 2018 to 2020 before leaving altogether.
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