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Also, the technology employed by social media platforms like [[LinkedIn]] to save you the bother of composing your own unctuous endorsements of people you once met at a [[business day convention]] and who have just posted about the wild old time they've had at a panel discussion on the operational challenges of regulatory reporting under the [[securities financing transactions regulation]]. | Also, the technology employed by social media platforms like [[LinkedIn]] to save you the bother of composing your own unctuous endorsements of people you once met at a [[business day convention]] and who have just posted about the wild old time they've had at a panel discussion on the operational challenges of regulatory reporting under the [[securities financing transactions regulation]]. | ||
More particularly, why artificial intelligence won’t be sounding the death knell to the legal profession any time soon. | ===Goodbye, faithful [[Mediocre lawyer|legal counsel]]?=== | ||
More particularly, why [[artificial intelligence]] won’t be sounding the death knell to the legal profession any time soon. Because Computer language isn’t nearly as rich as human language | |||
====No tenses==== | ====No tenses==== | ||
*machine language deals with past (and future) events in the present tense: Instead of saying: | *machine language deals with past (and future) events in the present tense: Instead of saying: | ||
:''The computer’s configuration on May 1, 2012 '''''was''''' XYZ''<br> | |||
Machine language will typically say: | |||
:''Where <DATE<sub>x</sub>> equals “May 1 2012”, let CONFIGURATION<sub>x</sub> equal “XYZ”''<br> | |||
This way a computer does not need to conceptualise ''itself yesterday'' as something different to ''itself today'', which means it doesn’t need to conceptualise “itself” ''at all''. Therefore, computers don’t need to be self-aware. Unless computer syntax undergoes some dramatic revolution (it could happen: we have to assume human language went through that revolution at some stage) computers will never be self-aware. | This way a computer does not need to conceptualise ''itself yesterday'' as something different to ''itself today'', which means it doesn’t need to conceptualise “itself” ''at all''. Therefore, computers don’t need to be self-aware. Unless computer syntax undergoes some dramatic revolution (it could happen: we have to assume human language went through that revolution at some stage) computers will never be self-aware. | ||