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Mindscape 196 | Judea Pearl @yudapearl on Cause and Effect. Counterfactual reasoning takes us beyond the data and into other possible worlds. #MindscapePodcast https://t.co/ME8S9BqjI2
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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect

To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual world, but about other possible worlds — in worlds where A didn’t happen but everything else was the same, B would not have happened. Judea Pearl has been the leader of the “causal revolution,” and we talk ...

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On May 9, 2022
Mindscape 196 | Judea Pearl @yudapearl on Cause and Effect. Counterfactual reasoning takes us beyond the data and into other possible worlds. #MindscapePodcast https://t.co/ME8S9BqjI2
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196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect

196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect

To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual world, but about other possible worlds — in worlds where A didn’t happen but everything else was the same, B ...

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Judea Pearl for laying the foundations of modern artificial intelligence

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Judea Pearl for laying the foundations of modern artificial intelligence

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has gone in this fourteenth edition to Judea Pearl for “bringing a modern foundation to ...

AI Pioneer Judea Pearl Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

AI Pioneer Judea Pearl Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Major international award cites UCLA professor’s foundational contributions to artificial intelligence Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of ...

Top Twitter Accounts To Satiate Your AI Curiosity In 2020

Top Twitter Accounts To Satiate Your AI Curiosity In 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new normal which is rapidly advancing the technology sector and has also significantly impacted the key aspects of businesse

Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer

Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer

Many of the concepts and terminology surrounding modern causal inference can be quite intimidating to the novice. Judea Pearl presents a book ideal for beginners in statistics, providing a ...

An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms To Understand the 'Why'

An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms To Understand the 'Why'

Deep learning is good at finding patterns in reams of data, but can't explain how they're connected. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants to change that. From a report: In March, Yoshua ...

A Complete History of Artificial Intelligence

A Complete History of Artificial Intelligence

The non-tech expert's comprehensive breakdown of the history of artificial intelligence, complete with a timeline of innovations and discoveries in AI from the early 1300s to present day.

Professor Yann LeCun wins A.M. Turing Award, computing’s highest honor

Professor Yann LeCun wins A.M. Turing Award, computing’s highest honor

The highest award in computing has been awarded to Professor Yann LeCun for his breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, specifically, deep learning and convolutional neural networks — the ...

Top 15 Data Science Experts of the World in 2020

Top 15 Data Science Experts of the World in 2020

Interested in Data Science? We at Analytics Insights have complied an exclusive listing of the 15 prominent Data Science experts across the world (in no particular order), whom you should ...

Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence

Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004, Geoffrey Hinton doubled down on his pursuit of a technological idea called a neural network. copyright by www.nytimes.com …

Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl

He is credited with the invention of Bayesian networks, a mathematical formalism for defining complex probability models, as well as the principal algorithms used for inference in these ...

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial ...

Pamela McCorduck's Contributions to the Birth of AI Continued Through Her Generosity

Pamela McCorduck's Contributions to the Birth of AI Continued Through Her Generosity

Pamela McCorduck, an author who wrote some of the first novels and histories about AI and was a generous friend of CMU, died Oct. 18. She was 80.

The Book of Why: Exploring the missing piece of artificial intelligence

The Book of Why: Exploring the missing piece of artificial intelligence

The Book of Why, written by Judea Pearl, explores why our artificial intelligence can perform complicated tasks by can't answer simple questions.

‘The Debate of the Next Decade’ – AI Debate 2 Explores AGI and AI Ethics

‘The Debate of the Next Decade’ – AI Debate 2 Explores AGI and AI Ethics

The four-hour event included three panel discussions: Architecture and Challenges, Insights from Neuroscience and Psychology, and Towards AI We Can Trust.

‘The Debate of the Next Decade’ — AI Debate 2 Explores AGI and AI Ethics

‘The Debate of the Next Decade’ — AI Debate 2 Explores AGI and AI Ethics

The four-hour event included three panel discussions: Architecture and Challenges, Insights from Neuroscience and Psychology, and Towards…

Dongarra Receives Prestigious Turing Award

Dongarra Receives Prestigious Turing Award

Dongarra, an innovator in computational software, is being honored for his pioneering contributions which have helped pave the way for high-performance computing’s evolution over the past ...