The following is a conversation with Judea Pearl, Professor UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award,

that's generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of Computing.

He's one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science,

and statistics. He has developed and championed probabilistic approaches to AI,

including Beijing Networks, and profound ideas in causality in general.

These ideas are important not just to AI, but to our understanding and practice of science.

But in the field of AI, the idea of causality calls an effect, to many, lie at the core of what

is currently missing and will must be developed in order to build truly intelligent systems.

For this reason, and many others, his work is worth returning to often.

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. This is the Artificial Intelligence

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but I love comments with kindness and thoughtfulness in them, so I thought I'd share them with you.

Someone on YouTube highlighted a quote from the conversation with No Chomsky, where he said

that the significance of your life is something you create. I like this line as well.

On most days, the existentialist approach to life is one I find liberating and fulfilling.

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