This AI model tries to re-create the mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

This AI model tries to re-create the mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Its creators say the AI app helps ordinary people understand how artificial intelligence is progressing. Critics contend there’s much work to be done.

When reports surfaced in May that the Supreme Court wanted to overturn abortion rights, many wondered how the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might have responded. Now, they don’t have to wait.

“I think they’re wrong on the law, but on the facts, no,” said a simulation of Ginsburg, who died in 2020, when asked about the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on Roe v. Wade.

The answer came not from Ginsburg’s numerous court opinions, but an artificial intelligence model of the late justice released Tuesday. “Whether it’s good or bad, it’s settled, and, therefore, it’s not my business to think about it,” the RBG bot concluded.

The model, called Ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is based on 27 years of Ginsburg’s legal writings on the Supreme Court, along with a host of news interviews and public speeches. A team from the Israeli artificial intelligence company, called AI21 Labs, fed this record into a complex

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