Reading Comprehension – Test 144

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> A Hong Kong tycoon who lost $20 million in trading stock futures entrusted to a robot is suing the man who sold him the proposal but is not sure that he would succeed in realising damages. This highlights the kind of problems that people are likely to encounter when combinations of technologies work together to address critical functions and the end result turns out to be quite different from the one desired. Which technology to blame? Or the deployer of the technologies? Would regulation allow for such allocation of blame?<br><br> The Hong Kong tycoon was impressed by the use of artificial intelligence by the robot trader and the nifty profits it turned in simulated trades. But when it came to actual trading, he ended up losing large amounts of money. Now, one of the touted use cases for 5G telecommunications is remote surgery, in which surgeons would use the near-zero latency of fifth-generation telecommunications to direct machinery to make precise incisions, excisions and sutures on patients far removed from where the surgeon sits. If everything goes according to plan, we have a wonderful solution for the current lack of even basic surgical facilities in most rural centres. But if things go wrong, who should be assigned the blame? Did something in the software that guides the robotic arms wielded from afar go wrong? Or was it the electronics, or the surgeon himself? Was the equivalent of a call drop to blame? From whom should the insurance company that settles the claim made by the patient or her heir, in an extreme case, try to realise the damage? <br><br> It is important to put norms in place to determine the allocation of responsibility in such instances. Multiple regulators must put their heads together to this end. It is just not possible for the telecom regulator to handle this challenge.

The Honk Kong tycoon decided to sue -

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> A Hong Kong tycoon who lost $20 million in trading stock futures entrusted to a robot is suing the man who sold him the proposal but is not sure that he would succeed in realising damages. This highlights the kind of problems that people are likely to encounter when combinations of technologies work together to address critical functions and the end result turns out to be quite different from the one desired. Which technology to blame? Or the deployer of the technologies? Would regulation allow for such allocation of blame?<br><br> The Hong Kong tycoon was impressed by the use of artificial intelligence by the robot trader and the nifty profits it turned in simulated trades. But when it came to actual trading, he ended up losing large amounts of money. Now, one of the touted use cases for 5G telecommunications is remote surgery, in which surgeons would use the near-zero latency of fifth-generation telecommunications to direct machinery to make precise incisions, excisions and sutures on patients far removed from where the surgeon sits. If everything goes according to plan, we have a wonderful solution for the current lack of even basic surgical facilities in most rural centres. But if things go wrong, who should be assigned the blame? Did something in the software that guides the robotic arms wielded from afar go wrong? Or was it the electronics, or the surgeon himself? Was the equivalent of a call drop to blame? From whom should the insurance company that settles the claim made by the patient or her heir, in an extreme case, try to realise the damage? <br><br> It is important to put norms in place to determine the allocation of responsibility in such instances. Multiple regulators must put their heads together to this end. It is just not possible for the telecom regulator to handle this challenge.

According to the current norms, who should be blamed for the poor or unwanted results resulting from the use of technologies as mentioned in the first para-

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> A Hong Kong tycoon who lost $20 million in trading stock futures entrusted to a robot is suing the man who sold him the proposal but is not sure that he would succeed in realising damages. This highlights the kind of problems that people are likely to encounter when combinations of technologies work together to address critical functions and the end result turns out to be quite different from the one desired. Which technology to blame? Or the deployer of the technologies? Would regulation allow for such allocation of blame?<br><br> The Hong Kong tycoon was impressed by the use of artificial intelligence by the robot trader and the nifty profits it turned in simulated trades. But when it came to actual trading, he ended up losing large amounts of money. Now, one of the touted use cases for 5G telecommunications is remote surgery, in which surgeons would use the near-zero latency of fifth-generation telecommunications to direct machinery to make precise incisions, excisions and sutures on patients far removed from where the surgeon sits. If everything goes according to plan, we have a wonderful solution for the current lack of even basic surgical facilities in most rural centres. But if things go wrong, who should be assigned the blame? Did something in the software that guides the robotic arms wielded from afar go wrong? Or was it the electronics, or the surgeon himself? Was the equivalent of a call drop to blame? From whom should the insurance company that settles the claim made by the patient or her heir, in an extreme case, try to realise the damage? <br><br> It is important to put norms in place to determine the allocation of responsibility in such instances. Multiple regulators must put their heads together to this end. It is just not possible for the telecom regulator to handle this challenge.

Why did the tycoon buy that technology?