By Jim Lynch
For this website, the editor of Contingencies wanted a follow-up to the recent piece I wrote about ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) (“Artificial Untelligence,” May/June 2023).
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By Jim Lynch
ChatGPT is, in its words, “a computer program designed to respond to user inputs in a conversational manner.” You can converse with it, ask it questions, and get it to write just about whatever you want.
By Paul Meixler
Models are ubiquitous in actuarial work. The following is a synopsis of the languages of models—in particular, the complex metalanguages and the structured rule-based object languages of models, along with mappings between them, are described.
By Alyssa Oursler
In the earliest hours of March 28, 1979, a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island—a sandbar on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania—partially melted when a technological malfunction was compounded by human error.
By Jay Vadiveloo
Editor’s note: This article is a follow-up from the Commentary in the March/April issue of Contingencies (“Toward a New School of Thought”).
By Linda K. Stone
Try your hand at Social Security reform with this revamped Academy tool
By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
Insurance companies would be wise to monitor this imminent
Prepared by the Committee on Professional Responsibility
This newly updated paper—reprinted in Contingencies for the benefit of our readers—assists actuaries in choosing the right model for the task at hand.
By Jim Lynch
I reviewed three books about artificial intelligence for the latest issue of Contingencies (“All About AI”; January/February 2023). I had compliments and quibbles for each, but one point that consistently emerged: AI is brittle, and it will be for some time.
By Alan J. Tausch
Since its outbreak in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on mortality in the U.S. Through August 2022, there had been 1,048,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which collects data on all deaths in the United States.