How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by 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
What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation and how do you know? This is the first part of building your data defense superpower and a pillar of our new book published by Rowman & Littlefield, Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation. Let’s start at the beginning. There are many terms out … Continue reading Misinformation vs. Disinformation: Why Knowing the Difference Matters
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
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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