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For them, their probability of claiming unemployment jumped in early 2023, he said - immediately following the entrance of the chat bot developed by OpenAI.

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As complexity increases, the probability of success quickly drops to near zero.

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“It heightens the probability that you get an emotional response to market events,” says Kristi Mitchem, a founder of wealth manager &Partners who was previously CEO of Wells Fargo asset management.

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So it's proposing that the burden of proof be reduced from "beyond all reasonable doubt" - the norm for criminal proceedings - to "on the balance of probabilities", which is used in civil cases.

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And, in 2023, another sobering independent review determined there was “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch date, and “no credible” way to fulfill the mission within its budget.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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