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AI Thinks Like Us ā€“ Flaws and All: New Study Finds ChatGPT Mirrors Human Decision Biases in Half the Tests
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 1, 2025 ā€“ Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says ā€¦ not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations ā€“ showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gamblerā€™s) fallacy ā€“ yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).

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In 2025, you canā€™t have an effective democracy without data literacy
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You are swimming in an ocean of data and donā€™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 someoneā€™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 benefits of working outside your field

Harvard Business Review, October 31, 2016

After dedicating a significant number of years and money to earning a university degree, what motivates people to voluntarily work in jobs outside their field? In a study selected for publication in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, study author Briana Sell Stenard, INFORMS member and assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University, explored the factors that contribute to this including loss of interest, better pay and working conditions, higher positions, and increased flexibility.

Measuring the cool factor

Changing Business, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, September 16, 2016

In an upcoming Management Science study, INFORMS member and professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Ruxian Wang has developed a method to measure the appeal or "cool factor" of commercial products.

Reducing the chronic illness costs

Changing Business, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, September 16, 2016

A forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science by INFORMS member and professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Jian Ni, explores how guiding patients to a more appropriate level of healthcare can reduce healthcare expenditures. 

The pub crawl of a lifetime

The Guardian, October 21, 2016

Planning a pub crawl and need to know the shortest distance between each of your stops? INFORMS member Professor William Cook from the University of Waterloo, Canada has done just that on a much grander scale than could be accomplished in one night of festivities. Using the "traveling salesman problem" approach, Cook plotted the coordinates of 24,727 pubs in the U.K. to ascertain the shortest possible route between them all.

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