How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation
What do you know to be true? And can you spot an AI-generated news story or online video? A recent video posted on X and reported by NBC News of an American company distributing food aid to the people of Gaza sparked an online debate about what was real and what was not. Beyond the facts of … Continue reading Our Truth Insecurity Has Arrived: AI and Misinformation Reach a New Level
I am not sure how we got here. That is saying something from a person like me who thinks a lot about data and misinformation and even wrote a book about it with Jeff Camm – Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation. We have been advocating for everyone to build their own … Continue reading Open Your Eyes to the Truth: The Mess of Misinformation
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
In the pre-dawn days of this year, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT. At first many probably thought of this as a fun parlor-like game sentence generator holding the same constructive value as the magic eight ball. ChatGPT was entertaining and it can answer questions like who has the most Olympic gold medals in a way that makes … Continue reading Generative AI Has Brought Us to this Inflection Point
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 … Continue reading What a Data Scientist Really Needs to Learn: Nothing
With the launch this month of our book, Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation, 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 … Continue reading Welcome to Data Duped
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