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).
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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The COVID-19 crisis has painfully highlighted the shortcomings of an almost absolute reliance on face-to-face medicine.
The expected shortage of mechanical ventilators needed to meet the demand from severely ill COVID-19 patients in the United States has prompted the federal government to lean on private industry to dramatically increase the supply. But ramping up production of complex medical equipment in manufacturing facilities configured for other products will take time that many patients don’t have. Research from Chicago Booth’s Dan Adelman suggests there may be another way to make up a portion of any shortfall in ventilator availability: share them between states.
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North Carolina’s health department is slated to receive $25 million to expand COVID-19 testing. But that funding comes with strings attached. A relief package, passed unanimously by the General Assembly Saturday and signed by Gov. Roy Cooper Monday, outlines how North Carolina will spend $1.57 billion of federal funding, including millions for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Roche Holding AG, of Basel, Switzerland, has garnered U.S. FDA authorization for emergency use of a test to determine whether people have been infected with the novel coronavirus fueling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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