The 'Professor of Uncertainty' on AI

Update: 2025-09-17

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AI is untrustworthy. It hallucinates, making up information or extrapolating by itself. That might make it frustrating to use, but could it prove more of a feature than a bug? Chicago Booth's Veronika Ročková uses statistical methods that exploit the randomness in AI responses to improve medical diagnoses, and even to classify galaxies more efficiently.

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The 'Professor of Uncertainty' on AI

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The 'Professor of Uncertainty' on AI

The 'Professor of Uncertainty' on AI