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I am pretty sure the judge wasn't "tricked", as in "he checked and still thought the bogus cases were real". I won't comment on his job since maybe it's OK to roll a dice and determine who wins in his juridiction, but barring that, if it was to actually decide on the case based on what the...

True. Also, for a professional AI, the test phase should certainly try to determine if the result is following the goal. Having an AI that, for example, conveniently forgets to point out generic pills over brand pills would be easily detected (for example, they'd probably go for something less...

I meant, bribe the people responsible of curating the training data to introduce biased content favoring the interest of corporations over the interest of the health service. Especially since the training data could be subjected to a later audit.

Well, I said it's not "complex" but it's "clunky". To me, complex means that it's difficult. Additions and substractions come naturally -- though honestly, now that you mentionned your 62 roll, I have played with people who had trouble looking a 3d6 and adding them, so well, it might be complex...

I imagine that and similar cases happened in France around the same time period. But individual doctors can be more easily "swayed" toward prescribing pill A rather than pill B because it's more difficult to provide oversight on individual medical appointments. A public service AI system would...

And the end result of the search, websites, which are all presenting things in a way that people are inclined to trust... especially websites with an agenda. But people have learnt that "I've seen on the Internet" is a warning flag, ever since the quote "Abraham Lincoln said never to trust...

Public service AI is something I am all for, in order to wrestle away the training from the private sector. A medical AI trained by the national public health service would be far less susceptible to being manipulated by corporate interest. Same with a law database. After all, some countries...

Rolemaster's critical did that somewhat because they were sometimes dependant. Your opponent cast a lightning bolt at you? Take 23 hits if you wear no armor, take 31 hits and be stunned for 3 rounds if you wear metal armor. This makes an incentive to wear, say, a neck-piece. Is the weight worth...

Seconded. Though the whole system was very 80s... The clunkiness was somewhat everywhere. I'd say it's not complex. You roll a d100, add a bonus that is mostly static, substract a GM-provided modifier and refer to the chart for applicable result. It's easy, as in a middle schooler can do it...

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 40 (12 days late): Contingency A single 6th level spell could have saved the CERN tens of billions of investiment expenditures. Prompt: Inside a cluttered wizard’s study—books on quantum thaumaturgy and multiverse harmonics lie open—a robed archmage with...

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 39 (12 days late): Contact Other Plane Contacting a long-dead sage for information is a smart thing to do. Except when asking about current events. Prompt: Inside a dimly lit wooden hut, a Scandinavian-style sorceress stands beside a wide iron cauldron...

What contributed to the worldwide notoriety of this case isn't only the topic (that was derided, even if wrongly, in the US as well), but because the concept of punitive damage wasn't generally explained to the audience. So the monetary amount awarded, in this and many similar cases, often seems...

Same. And I will even generalize : any technology that is providing inferior service compared to existing technology while costing more shouldn't be used. But that's not an ethical stance, that's common sense to use the best and least costly tool to do a task. Email isn't being replaced by...

That depends. In the US (where it doesn't seem to be entirely decided, but you probably know more than me) and in Japan, you can't, but in the EU or China, the tendancy is to consider that anything that result from a human creative process can be protected. So the output of the answer to basic...

I guess it depends on where you live. I don't know of many places where printing, posting or telling false things is enough to be prosecuted, absent additional specific circumstances, even voluntarily. One might be found liable, but an outright ban is uncommon. I'd love to have examples of the...

Yeah. We're seeing reports of hallucinations. Noone, as far as I know, deny that they exist (though there is no proof they are actually involved in the specific case mentionned in this thread) and there is no reason to suppose they don't happen when asking about law. But, the question that must...