Judea Pearl

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Related: Causal Inference · Gary Marcus · Yann LeCun · Deep Learning · Meta · Large Language Models · Michael Nielsen · Simpsons Paradox

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• AI Debate 2: Night of a thousand AI scholars — Sixteen scholars debate moving AI beyond deep learning
• AI critic Gary Marcus: Meta's LeCun is finally coming around to the things I said years ago — Gary Marcus argues deep learning alone cannot achieve general intelligence
• If correlation doesn't imply causation, then what does? — Judea Pearl's causal calculus inferring causation from observational data
• The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song — Spotify ML model applies twin-network counterfactual reasoning at scale
• What Is Causal Inference? — Causal inference methods from RCTs to Pearl's causal graphs explained
• Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know | Quanta Magazine — Mathematicians repeatedly re-proving infinitude of prime numbers
• Why machine learning struggles with causality - TechTalks — ML systems lack causal reasoning needed for robust generalization