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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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Why aren't baby formula stock rates getting better?

Why aren't baby formula stock rates getting better?

CNN, June 28, 2022

(CNN) Dozens of international flights loaded with baby formula have already come into the United States, but formula stock rates are not improving. Experts say it will take at least another couple months for this to change, as both supply levels and consumers' perspectives level out.

Taking a Data Approach to Solving America’s Gun Violence Problem

Taking a Data Approach to Solving America’s Gun Violence Problem

Audio Clip, June 30, 2022

New audio is available for media use featuring Sheldon Jacobson. He is a founder professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He talks about taking a data approach to solving America’s gun violence problem. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. All sound should be attributed to Sheldon Jacobson. What follows are 4 questions and responses. These responses were provided on June 29, 2022.

My Turn: Illinois political ads showcase the worst of Washington

My Turn: Illinois political ads showcase the worst of Washington

The News-Gazette, June 24, 2022

Anyone watching television in Illinois over the past few weeks has been inundated with political ads highlighting the Republican primary candidates for governor, and more locally, the Republican primary candidates in the newly gerrymandered 15th Congressional District.

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