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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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Commentary on “The Effect of Calorie Posting Regulation on Consumer Opinion” article

Commentary on “The Effect of Calorie Posting Regulation on Consumer Opinion” article

Applied Marketing Science, March 20, 2018

Steve Gaskin, Bob Klein and Gerry Katz of Applied Marketing Science, Inc. have been invited to be among the first of a network of “Ambassadors” who have the interest, resources and skills to translate academic papers published in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science - including "The Effect of Calorie Posting Regulation on Consumer Opinion" by Dinesh Puranam, Vishal Narayan and Vrinda Kadiyali - into short articles that have the potential to reach and impact practitioners.

Brenda Dietrich brings hands on approach to ORIE

Brenda Dietrich brings hands on approach to ORIE

Cornell Engineering, February 21, 2018

INFORMS Fellow Brenda Dietrich is the newest addition to the Cornel University Operations Research and Information Engineering faculty as the Arthur ’59, M.S. ‘61 and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice.

New study takes the guesswork out of selecting and seeding teams for 'March Madness'

New study takes the guesswork out of selecting and seeding teams for 'March Madness'

Phys.org, March 7, 2018

New research has developed an automated approach for narrowing down and ranking the field of Division 1 college basketball teams from 351 to the 68 that would play in the annual "March Madness" basketball tournaments, watched by more than 80 million people each year. The study, "Using Mathematical Programming to Select and Seed Teams for the NCAA Tournament," will be published in the INFORMS journal Interfaces.

2018 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference: Driving the future of analytics

2018 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference: Driving the future of analytics

KD Nuggets, March 12, 2018

From better protecting the world economy against cyber crime, to detecting and preventing life threatening sepsis infections, to creating virtual environments to interact with artificial intelligence technology, analytics is driving the great discoveries and advancements of the future. And there is no greater opportunity to be part of driving that future than the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research.

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