Summary of Agentcourt: Simulating Court with Adversarial Evolvable Lawyer Agents, by Guhong Chen et al.
AgentCourt: Simulating Court with Adversarial Evolvable Lawyer Agents
by Guhong Chen, Liyang Fan, Zihan Gong, Nan Xie, Zixuan Li, Ziqiang Liu, Chengming Li, Qiang Qu, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed AgentCourt simulation system utilizes large language models (LLMs) to drive autonomous agents, mimicking the courtroom process. The primary objective is to enable lawyer-agents to learn how to argue a case and improve their legal skills through simulated court hearings. An adversarial evolutionary approach was developed for the lawyer-agent, allowing them to continuously learn from real-world cases. Experimental results showed that after engaging in 1,000 simulated cases, evolved lawyer-agents exhibited consistent improvement in handling legal tasks. Professional lawyers evaluated the simulations, finding notable advancements in responsiveness, expertise, and logical rigor. This work paves the way for LLM-driven agent technology in legal scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper presents a new computer program called AgentCourt that simulates a courtroom. The program has judges, lawyers, and other people who make decisions based on big language models. The goal is to help these “lawyers” learn how to argue cases better by letting them practice in the simulated courtroom. To achieve this, the researchers used an approach that allows the lawyers to improve over time by learning from real court cases. They tested the program and found that after practicing for a long time, the lawyers got much better at doing their jobs. Real lawyers even looked at the results and said they were impressive! This research can help us create more advanced computer programs that can make decisions like people do. |
