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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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The Impact of Covid-19 On Supply Chains

The Impact of Covid-19 On Supply Chains

TD Ameritrade, March 25, 2020

INFORMS President, Pinar Keskinocak, does her first live TV interview on the impact of supply chains amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Materials Shortages in Healthcare: An Operations Management Expert’s Perspectives

Materials Shortages in Healthcare: An Operations Management Expert’s Perspectives

Healthcare Innovation, March 25, 2020

At a time when healthcare leaders are trying to work out a huge range of issues around preparations for the COVID-19 pandemic, one area of endeavor that is coming into further focus is the operations management field. Operations management professionals work in many industries, focusing on ensuring the orderly and organized functioning of supply management and of operational processes. Their professional association, the Catonsville, Md.-based  Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, or INFORMS, has been active in helping its members who are working in the healthcare industry to help their organizations prepare for what’s coming next.

When will 'social distancing' end?

When will 'social distancing' end?

Live Science, March 25, 2020

In states and cities across the U.S., government officials have ordered residents to stay home, shelter in place and otherwise put their familiar routines "on pause" to help quell the spread of COVID-19.  

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