Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SASW@MIT-MC From: SASW%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Natural Language Application Message-ID: <2238@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 01:36:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2238 Posted: Wed Jun 22 01:36:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 22:51:35 EDT Lines: 22 From: Steven A. SwernofskyDo I count as an AI program? I can parse your "legalese" for you. The quoted paragraph essentially signs over to your insurance company any rights you may have had to sue someone (anyone) over the accident. This is in exchange for the company's payout on your claim. They can then (themselves) sue the people you would have been able to sue and collect without bothering you or getting your approval. This is not a legal opinion of any sort. Please send me my can of Coors Lite via the newly-created CLTP (Coors Lite Transmission Protocol). -- Steve P.S. The Los Angeles /Daily Journal/ is a legal newspaper which publishes a "sentence of the day" each day, culled from actual legal writing. It is usually as bad or worse than your quoted example. They also publish a "sentence of the year" (!). Since most human beings cannot parse a sentence of that opaqueness, no AI program should pass the Turing test unless it also fails at it. $$