An intrepid student has created a simple chatbot program that helps people get out of parking tickets.
Cyrus Farivar reports: "Joshua Browder, a 19-year-old British student at Stanford University, has created a chatbot (DoNotPay.co.uk) that successfully challenged parking tickets in London and New York City."
The chatbot works by asking a few simple questions (via AI or webform) and then auto-generating a legal appeal for the parking ticket.
Browder claims that the chatbot has challenged 160,000 parking tickets so far, and has a "low 60 percent" success rate in beating the rap. Browder also credits the success rate to overzealous implementation of parking regulations. Browder also says that the model is likely to work in other cities, because "If it can work in New York it can work anywhere." Seattle is the next target.
FULL STORY: This chatbot appeals parking tickets and wins 60 percent of the time
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