The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer

Go, Team Robot
Opinion Non-techies have discovered AI, and they're in a tizzy. A lot of that tizzy is about how AI is going to outsmart us in some sort of Hollywood dystopia, as deeply ironic as it is deeply wrong. The nature of LLMs isn't HAL-9000 self-awareness, but a giant predictive text machine. That in itself is both science and science fiction, where sufficient awareness of rules and distributions provides what science fiction calls working precognition or as physics has it, a working model.…