RESEARCH
PSYCHOLOGY
IN
PROFESSOR SARAH COHN
HEAD OF REFERENCE
February 4, 2023
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"Generative A.I. relies on a complex algorithm that analyzes the way humans put words together on the internet. It does not decide what is true and what is not."
"By pinpointing patterns in that data, an L.L.M. learns to do one thing in particular: guess the next word in a sequence of words. It acts like a powerful version of an autocomplete tool."
"OpenAI said that the tool might struggle to distinguish authoritative information from rumors and that it often failed to accurately convey when it was uncertain about the information it was delivering."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/ai-chatbots-hallucination.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/technology/openai-deep-research-tool.html
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Claire Wladis, Alyse C. Hachey & Katherine Conway (2018) No Time for College? An Investigation of Time Poverty and Parenthood, The Journal of Higher Education, 89:6, 807-831.
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