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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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Study Reveals That Non-Medical Interventions Also Reduce Severe COVID-19 Outcomes

Study Reveals That Non-Medical Interventions Also Reduce Severe COVID-19 Outcomes

The Weather Channel, October 24, 2020

Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the novel coronavirus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, and overall deaths, say researchers, "High compliance with voluntary quarantine, where the entire household stays home if there is a person with symptoms or risk of exposure in the household has a significant impact on reducing the spread," said study author Pinar Keskinocak from Georgia Institute of Technology in the US.

MIT Professor, David Simchi-Levi, Awarded Prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize

MIT Professor, David Simchi-Levi, Awarded Prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize

News Release, October 26, 2020

INFORMS, the leading international association of operations research and analytics professionals, announced Dr. David Simchi-Levi, Ph.D., has been awarded the prestigious Impact Prize. Dr. Simchi-Levi is a renowned professor of engineering systems and the director of the Data Science Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the current editor-in-chief of the INFORMS journal Management Science and the past editor-in-chief of the INFORMS journal Operations Research.

Chicago-Area Grocers Stock Up to Ward Off Shortages as COVID-19 Cases Rise. 'We're Always Chasing One Thing to the Next.'

Chicago-Area Grocers Stock Up to Ward Off Shortages as COVID-19 Cases Rise. 'We're Always Chasing One Thing to the Next.'

Chicago Tribune, October 23, 2020

After shelves were emptied of goods like toilet paper, canned food and hand sanitizer at the start of the pandemic, Chicago-area grocery stores and suppliers are stocking up to avert shortages as coronavirus cases rise in Illinois. On Thursday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a 10 p.m. curfew on all nonessential city businesses and a prohibition on indoor service at bars without food licenses. Gov. J.B. Pritzker also announced stricter rules for some counties, including DuPage, Kane, Will and Kankakee.

Nevada Plans No Immediate Changes as COVID-19 Cases Spike

Nevada Plans No Immediate Changes as COVID-19 Cases Spike

Huron Daily Tribune, October 20, 2020

Nevada’s rate of coronavirus infections is steadily rising again. But state officials are reluctant to blame relaxed guidelines and say there is no reason yet to consider stricter measures. “We’re not at that point now,” Gov. Steve Sisolak said Tuesday. “I don’t want to get to that point ... I don’t want to see that happen, so we are working to loosen things up more and get people back to what their new normal is,” he said at a news conference in Las Vegas. 

COVID-19 May Upset the 'Keys to the White House' Prediction

COVID-19 May Upset the 'Keys to the White House' Prediction

The Hill, October 22, 2020

Allan Lichtman, the distinguished political scientist from American University, has demonstrated an uncanny knack to forecast who will win U.S. presidential elections. Using an earthquake forecasting model adapted to election forecasting, he uses 13 simple true/false questions, labelled the “Keys to the White House,” with six or more false keys indicating that the challenger will defeat the incumbent.

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