Contingencies

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AI and You

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bot 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)... Read More

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Artificial Untelligence—ChatGPT falls short in a uniquely human endeavor

By Jim Lynch Accompanying this article is a sidebar about two men who induced ChatGPT, the latest starlet in artificial intelligence, to write an actuarial exam. I asked it to write that sidebar. (Editor’s note: I edited that sidebar before... Read More

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Lingua Mathematica—A deep dive into the languages of models

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... Read More

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Is the World Finally Ready for Nuclear Energy?

The risks and rewards of this oft-maligned power source 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... Read More