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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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Experts Say Efficacy of Smartphone COVID-19 Tracing App Will Depend on Participation

Experts Say Efficacy of Smartphone COVID-19 Tracing App Will Depend on Participation

Fox 47, December 17, 2020

While the vaccine may be months away for many in the country, there’s another tool on its way that can go in the hands of everyone in Wisconsin as soon as next week. The State announced the WI Exposure Notification, a voluntary and free smartphone app that uses Bluetooth to alert users if they’ve been in close contact with another user who has tested positive for COVID-19. Whenever someone tests positive for COVID-19, they’ll be sent a code that can be entered into the app, which is used to anonymously send an alert to users with whom they’ve shared a Bluetooth signal.

TSA Has Sped Up Airport Tech Deployments Since COVID

TSA Has Sped Up Airport Tech Deployments Since COVID

Travel Weekly, December 18, 2020

The TSA has sped up technology deployments since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as it moves to reduce literal touch points at airport screening stations. The effort has been undertaken to benefit the traveling public but also TSA staffers themselves. As of Dec. 15, 11 TSA agents have died of Covid-19. The technology deployments have centered around 3-D screening systems and automated ID authentication. The former diminishes the likelihood that passenger carry-on bags will have to be manually checked, the agency said, which in turn reduces interactions between agents and flyers.

Covid-19: the Moderna Vaccine, a Fruit of the American Operation "Warp Speed"

Covid-19: the Moderna Vaccine, a Fruit of the American Operation "Warp Speed"

Les Echos, December 19, 2020

The authorization granted to Moderna's vaccine highlights the role of Operation Warp Speed ​​set up by Washington to accelerate the quest for drugs and vaccines against Covid-19. With an "American-style" method: innovation, a lot of money, soldiers and a dose of marketing.

Vaccine Q&A: the Logistics of Getting Vaccines to Everyone Who Needs Them

Vaccine Q&A: the Logistics of Getting Vaccines to Everyone Who Needs Them

NC State University, December 18, 2020

In this post, we focus on the logistical challenges associated with distributing different types of COVID-19 vaccines to millions of people, from urban centers to sparsely populated rural counties. To address those questions, we spoke with Julie Swann, a systems engineer with expertise in vaccine distribution whose work focuses on making health care and supply chains more efficient, effective and equitable. Swann is the department head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State.

Dry Ice is a Hot Commodity Because of the Vaccine

Dry Ice is a Hot Commodity Because of the Vaccine

The Boston Globe, December 17, 2020

When the first doses of a COVID-19 from Pfizer and BioNTech were administered across the United States on Monday, it marked the beginning of a mass distribution effor that hinges on an unlikely product: dry ice.

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