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Supreme Court Robots Could Serve Infinite Terms

January 21, 2016

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A computer model created to determine which justices authored the Supreme Court’s unsigned decisions has been shown to have a more than 80 percent accuracy rate. Given more and more data, “perhaps a computer could do more than just predict authorship,” Adrienne Lafrance writes in The Atlantic. “A combination of machine learning and language generation applied to robust enough dataset might mean that lifetime appointments could, in theory, continue long after human justices die.” However, William Li, an M.I.T. computer science grad who created the unsigned decision algorithm believes “we’re still a ways away from generating arguments indistinguishable from human opinions.”

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