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AI Thinks Like Us – Flaws and All: New Study Finds ChatGPT Mirrors Human Decision Biases in Half the Tests
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 1, 2025 – Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says … not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler’s) fallacy yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).

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In 2025, you can’t have an effective democracy without data literacy
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You are swimming in an ocean of data and don’t even realize it. All around you are invisible amounts of data that would be staggering to try to comprehend. Thousands of smartphones and smart devices are talking to, sending and downloading vast amounts of data, video, audio, words, numbers, images, you name it. Everything from the latest movie on Netflix to someone’s radiology results from a cancer screening.

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Shell Shocked: How Small Eateries Are Dealing With Record Egg Prices
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Mom-and-pop businesses are trying to adapt to the soaring cost of eggs. The owners of four egg-centric restaurants across the country show how they are coping with this threat to their livelihoods.

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Coronavirus in Numbers: The Story Data Tells Us

Coronavirus in Numbers: The Story Data Tells Us

Business Recorder, March 3, 2020

Whatever part of the world you're in, you've been a part of a room where COVID19 or the Coronavirus, as it is more commonly known, has been mentioned. People in many, if not all parts of the world, are fearful over the pandemic.

Bracketology 101: Illini moving up the seed line

Bracketology 101: Illini moving up the seed line

The News-Gazette, March 2, 2020

Illinois beat writer SCOTT RICHEY is taking regular stock of where the Illini might end up once Selection Sunday arrives on March 15. Here are the latest updates as of Monday.

Hey, Quick Question: Is Drone Delivery Coming for Fashion?

Hey, Quick Question: Is Drone Delivery Coming for Fashion?

Yahoo! Lifestyle, March 2, 2020

There was a moment maybe, like, three years ago when fashion was very heavily intrigued by drones. The verb used here is intentional: I wouldn't go so far as to say "obsessed with," because one runway show with drone "models" — whirling slabs of machinery clutching bags in their robot talons — does not an infatuation make. But the intrigue was abundant: Many a think piece declared drones to be "the future" of fashion and retail, referencing megaliths like Alphabet and Amazon that were — are — actively testing drone deliveries, like it's already 2045 and we have both flying cars and a woman president.

'Monday Blues' are real and they impact productivity, says study

'Monday Blues' are real and they impact productivity, says study

livemint.com, March 2, 2020

The mundane 'Monday blues effect' after the weekend might actually be a scientific phenomenon, suggests a new study. The researchers from the Lehigh University's College of Business conducted the study which was published in the journal - Information Systems Research.

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