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People love an underdog for many reasons, even if the data tells them the underdog is unlikely to come out victorious. Why?
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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People love an underdog for many reasons, even if the data tells them the underdog is unlikely to come out victorious. Why?
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