Called "DoNotPay", it is the first robot lawyer built in the world and was created by a 19-year-old programmer!
A 19-year-old British programmer, Joshua Browder, who is currently a student at MIT, has developed the aptly named “DoNotPay,” the world’s first robo- lawyer. Registered users can use the service to discuss any kind of legal issue and get appropriate answers provided automatically. It started as a free website to help people with parking ticket requests and soon became an automatic appeal generator, using previous successful tips as a template.
"As a 19-year-old, I coded the entire robot for myself and I think it makes a reasonable job offering from replacing parking lawyers. I know there are thousands of programmers with decades more experience than me working on similar issues. If it's possible for every citizen to one day get the same level of legal representation as a billionaire, how can that not be a good thing?" Browder said.
“Initially, I thought the best way to do this was to create lots of individual rules for them to follow. However, I quickly failed with this approach, because there are thousands of ways to say the same thing and it would be impossible for it to understand every single one. The breakthrough came when I learned how to create a way for the bot to learn and compare the same phrases, so it doesn’t matter how the user formulates their requests,” Browder adds.
