AI has many uses—or at least that's what we keep being told—but one area where it might do some good is helping with the notoriously complex legal process. After all, should you find yourself faced with the task of self-representation in an upcoming court case, perhaps an AI may be able to present your arguments more successfully than you. Jerome Dewald tried just that in the New York State Supreme Court last month, but the judges were far from impressed by his creative use of technology.
Dewald was representing himself as a plaintiff in an employment dispute, APNews reports, but felt that an AI avatar would deliver his opening presentation better than he could due to a tendency to mumble and trip over his words. He first attempted to generate a digital replica of himself with "a product created by a San Francisco tech company", but when he ran out of time he used a generic avatar instead.
