Author, AI commentator, data debunker, and Professor of Economics Gary N. Smith beams in to share the truth about ChatGPT, the state of science, crypto, and what the future holds on episode 110 of the Far Out with Faust podcast. 

Gary N. Smith is a prolific author and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Gary has spent much of his career illuminating the ways in which statistics and data are misunderstood, manipulated and misused. His book Standard Deviation: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics, was a London Times Book of the Week. 

He’s also written extensively about finance, including some eye-opening stock market analyses. Gary has authored something like 16 books, more than 100 academic papers, and seven software programs on economics, finance and statistics. His work has been featured in popular media, including the New York Times, Wired, CNBC, Motley Fool, Scientific American, Forbes, Newsweek, Fast Company, and many more. Gary’s latest book is called Distrust: Big Data, Data Torturing, and the Assault on Science.

You won’t want to miss a moment of this riveting dive into emerging technologies. Faust and Gary 
begin by answering all your burning questions about ChatGPT, including:
-What is ChatGPT capable of?
-Is ChatGPT as smart (or smarter) than humans?
-Is ChatGPT bad for humanity?
-Is “artificial” intelligence really intelligence?

There’s much more than AI to this podcast, as Faust probes Gary’s latest book to get the scoop on why “trust the science” has become a hollow platitude. Topics of discussion include:
-What is P-hacking and how is it ruining research?
-How is data torturing hurting science?
-How did tech giants like Google become corrupted?
-How does Big Pharma manipulate data to sell drugs?
-Is Bitcoin and crypto the future, or just a worthless sham?
-How can we use the Internet effectively without censorship?

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