Rebecca Dolgin

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Source: Julia Garan/iStockFor all the research and conversation we’ve had about social media, it’s amazing that we still get these things so wrong. If you watched Mountainhead, the HBO original movie about four tech titans meeting up in the mountains for a long weekend, you may have been disturbed by the storyline in which a sloppy software update on a social media platform allowed anyone to generate deepfakes, triggering chaos and violence across the globe.

Oct 24, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Rebecca Dolgin

The wisdom-of-the-crowd effect could be used to predict elections. Polls may be asking the wrong question (or asking the right question the wrong way). Prediction markets may be a better indicator than traditional polling. You may have heard the saying, “There’s wisdom in the crowd.” It’s not just an adage: Empirical studies have shown again and again that when several judgments about some fact—How many jellybeans are in this jar? What’s the unemployment rate in France?

Oct 23, 2024 | qoshe.com | Rebecca Dolgin

You may have heard the saying, “There’s wisdom in the crowd.” It’s not just an adage: Empirical studies have shown again and again that when several judgments about some fact—How many jellybeans are in this jar? What’s the unemployment rate in France? What’s the temperature in this room right now?—are averaged together, the average is typically more accurate than most of the individual estimates (e.g., Laan, Madirolas, & De Polavieja, 2017; Larrick, Mannes, & Soll, 2012).

Jun 6, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Rebecca Dolgin

Source: Photo by Google DeepMindThe latest release of ChatGPT resurfaced the question that has been swirling around artificial intelligence (AI) for decades: Is it possible for a computer to think? Once again, we’re moving the goalposts for what would be considered evidence that computers can, in fact, think. Back in the 50s and 60s, pioneers in computer science decided that if a computer could beat a human at a game of chess, that would be convincing evidence that computers could think.