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THE BOOK OF WHY - JUDEA PEARL DANA MACKENZIE KA...

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. His work explains how
we can know easy things  like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet  and
how to answer hard questions  like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to
know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the
worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial
intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

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