MEMBER
Daniel Conway, PhD
MEMBER TYPE
Think Tank
FOCUS
Data Science and AI
WORK
The University of Arkansas
CONTACT
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SUMMARY
Daniel Conway, Ph.D., is an analytics and AI journeyman. His Ph.D. is in Operations Research from Indiana University and has served on the faculty of Notre Dame, Indiana, Northwestern, Iowa, Florida, Virginia Tech, South Florida, and Arkansas. Dan serves on several blockchain standards boards and advises several blockchain startups. In addition to university faculty roles, he has consulted for dozens of companies, including Cisco Systems, Deere, AIG, Consulate Healthcare, and other organizations with interest in information security.
ARTICLES
With the release of ChatGPT, I thought I might finally have an answer to one of the few remaining unanswered questions in economics: is there such a thing as a free lunch? After fasting through midday, I was left wondering what ChatGPT might otherwise be good for, more particularly, what meaningful data could it provide as input to my AI algorithms. Social media can be thought of as “Confirmation Bias as a Service.” It is architected to understand what confirms my beliefs and it provides that to me. It generally makes me feel good as a person, but my AI algorithms are less moved. ChatGPT is more like “Group Think as a Service.”