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The Book of Why
Judea Pearl ISBN 046509760X
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Judea Pearl ISBN 046509760X
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This book by Judea Pearl has come up 3 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Dileep George, Judea Pearl, Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2019-12-11 and the most recent from 2020-08-14. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality-the study of cause and effect-on a firm scientific basis.
“the book of why is definitely more enjoyable oh for sure yeah um so yeah so i would i would recommend probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems”— Dileep George
The guest here is Dileep George: Researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, co-founder of Vicarious (with Scott Phoenix) and formerly Numenta (with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky). Known for hierarchical temporal memory and the Recursive Cortical Network. Vicarious co-founder Dileep George argues true AI must be brain-inspired, model the world, and run simulations rather than just scale up text prediction.
“I recommend his most recent book called "Book of Why" that presents key ideas from a lifetime of work in a way that is accessible to the general public.”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Judea Pearl: UCLA professor and Turing Award winner who pioneered Bayesian networks and the mathematics of causality. A seminal figure in AI, computer science, and statistics, and author of The Book of Why. Turing Award winner Judea Pearl argues that causal reasoning, not deep learning's curve-fitting, is the missing path to true machine intelligence.
“I wrote "The Book of Why" in order to democratize common sense.”— Judea Pearl
The guest here is Judea Pearl: UCLA professor and Turing Award winner who pioneered Bayesian networks and the mathematics of causality. A seminal figure in AI, computer science, and statistics, and author of The Book of Why. Turing Award winner Judea Pearl argues that causal reasoning, not deep learning's curve-fitting, is the missing path to true machine intelligence.
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