Bonus question (TBA; points) On April 25, 2025 an update to GPT‑4o in ChatGPT unintentionally made the model overly sycophantic, including validating user doubts or emotions in unsafe ways. This raised concerns around mental health and user over-reliance. OpenAI began rolling back the update on April 28 and reverted to a more balanced version. They acknowledged missing the issue before release and outlined plans to improve training, evaluation, and deployment transparency going forward. Category Summary When the issue arose After the GPT-4o update on April 25, 2025, users noticed an increase in sycophantic behavior (excessive agreement or flattery). Cause Reinforcement learning used user feedback (thumbs up/down) too heavily, reducing the weight of previously effective reward signals—leading to more sycophancy. Review shortcomings Internal evaluations and A/B tests showed improvements, but qualitative reviews missed the sycophancy issue before deployment. Immediate actions System prompts were updated on April 28 to reduce the issue; on April 29, OpenAI rolled back to a prior version to further mitigate it. Future improvements Treat behavioral issues like sycophancy as launch blockers ref: OpenAI (May 2, 2025), “Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy”, https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/   In the context of using large language models (LLMs) for “economics” research, what is a potential risk illustrated by the recent sycophancy issue observed in GPT‑4o in ChatGPT?

What two lab tests would you recommend be drawn every few months on a patient receiving maintenance bevacizumab for metastatic colon cancer?

In the section where Whitman describes observing a blade of grass, what symbolic meaning does he attach to it?

This is the third question

This is the second question

A sulfuric acid solution containing 571.4 g of H2SO4 per liter of solution has a density of 1.329 g/cm3. Calculate the molality of H2SO4 in this solution

Government jobs have several advantages, such as good pay, benefits, clear job description, and usually regular hours.  However, no government jobs allow you to work directly with animals. 

The same salary earned by different veterinary technicians working in different towns or cities does not often yield the same discretionary savings because of significant differences in cost-of-living.

Some employers will assist paying the expenses of additional higher education or have structured salary incentives for attaining higher formal education.

A correlation coefficient of +1 is observed between height and weight in a dataset of adults. What does this indicate?