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.
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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Former INFORMS President Ed Kaplan coauthored a study that explores how much runners actually slow as the age, and the good news is, not as much as was originally thought. The study showed that older runners start to decline gradually after the age of 40, and only start to slow more dramatically in their late 70s.
The UPS ORION software, in use since 2012 after a decade of development, calculates a driver's most efficient path for the typical shipping day, which consists of about 100 stops, by analyzing more than 200,000 routing options.
Senior Program Manager Jack Levis, winner of the INFORMS Franz Edelman Award, president of the INFORMS Analytics Society, and chair of the INFORMS Analytics Certification Board, is considered the father of the software which is operational across the entire U.S. system and currently being tested internationally.
INFORMS member and Georgia Tech professor Eva Lee gives a behind the scenes look at how a flu vaccine is created and adapted each year to combat that season's flu strains.
INFORMS member and Brock University professor Michael J. Armstrong, with Carleton University professor Aaron Luntala Nsakanda discuss the ins and outs of loyalty awards programs, from airline frequent flier clubs to retail stores, using their research that utilized stochastic linear programming to model and earning and redemption of points in rewards program over time.
Scott Nestler, CAP, INFORMS member and professor with the University of Notre Dame, shares his perspective on a variety of ethical questions specific to data and analytics, and in particular, the role of the INFORMS Ethics Guidelines.
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