Recently the data community and the media have been buzzing about Generative AI and in particular Google’s AI Overview responses to questions like ‘How many rocks should I eat?’ or ‘How to glue cheese to your pizza?’ These answers of course are silly and the memes have been fun to read, however, there is a … Continue reading Misinformation Lessons from Pizza Glue and Eating Rocks: A Beginning
Generative AI has spilled into society like an oil slick on an ocean. There is no escaping it. The wind, the waves, and the current will carry it to places we have yet to imagine in terms of its capabilities, uses, and applications. It encroaches on us without much of a plan to contain it, … Continue reading Containing ChatGPT May be Impossible
New year, New You. The season is perfect for setting some personal goals. Maybe it is losing weight (or at least committing to live healthier). Maybe you will commit to a new hobby Julie & Julia style. Maybe it is setting a professional goal. All of this can be hard work to seek out and … Continue reading Sometimes Your Goals Find You
Have you ever made a decision on limited information – a tidbit, a smidge of knowledge, or a gut feeling backed by just a little data? We probably all have done this and sometimes either it was just necessary due to urgency or the decision was small with little consequence that it was ok to … Continue reading Tiny Numbers, Big Mistakes: A Scary Case of Medical Misinformation
FREE iPhone15! There I said it. Did it get your attention? Along with the words “New and Improved”, Free is among marketing’s most effective words. It grabs the attention of those seeking a deal or an offer that may be exclusive to them. But it is really “free” or are all of these recent free iPhone 15 … Continue reading Free, Free, Free. How Can It Be?
With the launch of Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation, that I co-wrote with Jeffrey D. Camm, we hope we are bringing curious readers closer to understanding data. Not just the math and statistics, but also provide some insights into how data is used in many of our everyday interactions. For example, that not-so-random advertising you … Continue reading Data Duped: Your Superpower against Misinformation
Raise your hand if you are a data scientist and you have used ChatGPT to help you write your code or maybe generate a photo like the one above. Exactly what I thought. Many have discovered the usefulness of ChatGPT to not only write thank you notes but to also write code. And this is just the beginning. Recently … Continue reading What a Data Scientist Really Needs to Learn: Nothing
Imagine this scene during the closing seconds of an NBA playoff game. ANNOUNCER: Curry has the ball and dribbles down the court. You can tell he is thinking about his shot choice. Should he go for the jump shot or will he attempt the long ball? (clock ticking passed 15 seconds …) ANNOUNCER: This could decide it all. He steps … Continue reading Changing the NBA 3-Pointer: How Basketball’s Most Notorious Shot Defies Economic Rules and the Impact of Analytics
Since the introduction of ChatGPT3 last November and its protégé ChatGPT4 last month, there has been frenzied anticipation about how this form of AI will transform all of us in nearly unimaginable ways. While ChatGPT has been impressive in its capability it has also demonstrated the limits of its knowledge by providing incorrect or misleading … Continue reading What ChatGPT Tells Us About Misinformation: The Black Mirror Effect
When famed mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing proposed the idea of the Turing test in the 1950s, he was pondering if a computer program could be viewed as intelligent. The question was part data science and part philosophy. Can a machine make us believe they are human, and could there be a point in time when it is … Continue reading Does Chat AI need a Turing Test? What you Need to Know about ChatGPT and Generative Models
