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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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Reopening From Coronavirus: Lessons From South Korea

Reopening From Coronavirus: Lessons From South Korea

Spectrum News, June 12, 2020

The United States and South Korea announced its first case of coronavirus on the same day. In the following months South Korea has been widely praised for its response as life has largely returned to normal.

Flight Risk? I-Team Tracks Local Flights from COVID-19 Hot Zones

Flight Risk? I-Team Tracks Local Flights from COVID-19 Hot Zones

WCOP Cincinnati, June 16, 2020

Andrew Revere Sr. flew to Cincinnati last week, visiting his fifth airport since March. His American Airlines flight marked the first time he was told to wear a mask. “I don’t want to make anybody uncomfortable. So, if they say to wear a mask then I’m going to put it on,” said Revere, an Atlanta resident who played pro football in Mexico until the coronavirus pandemic put an end to his season on March 14.

Lockdowns May Have Averted 531 Million Coronavirus Infections

Lockdowns May Have Averted 531 Million Coronavirus Infections

Anchorage Press, June 15, 2020

Lockdowns implemented in some countries to reduce transmission of the coronavirus were extremely effective at controlling its rapid spread and saved millions of lives, two new studies suggest. Shutdowns prevented or delayed an estimated 531 million coronavirus infections across six countries — China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, France and the United States — researchers from the University of California, Berkeley report June 8 in Nature.

Produce Supply Chain Management Lessons Learned From The Medical Industry; Being Pro-Active On Possible Next Wave Of COVID-19 Or Future Pandemics I...

Produce Supply Chain Management Lessons Learned From The Medical Industry; Being Pro-Active On Possible Next Wave Of COVID-19 Or Future Pandemics Is A Start

Perishable Pundit, June 13, 2020

The great challenge of something such as COVID-19 is that we don’t have the time to do decades of research to understand the effectiveness — or lack of effectiveness — of any given approach. We have to act. That means, though, that we could be “successful” at handling COVID-19 yet still fail society due to unmeasured impacts.

Watch: Curing the Healthcare Supply Chain

Watch: Curing the Healthcare Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain, June 12, 2020

Christopher Tang, professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, describes what it will take for hospital and healthcare supply chains to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was a “wakeup call” for supply chains, Tang says. A nation that ostensibly has an abundance of materials discovered that it could be subject to serious shortages of critical supplies needed to fight a pandemic, such as personal protective equipment and ventilators. “We need to rethink how we can do better,” he says.

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