All right. Hi, everybody. This is Gatzad. Today I've got arguably the biggest academic that I've had on my show. And that's saying quite a lot because I've had some truly accomplished people. Today I have with me, Professor Judea Pearl. First, let me say hello to you. How are you doing, Judea? Oh, I'm great. Thank you. It's a beautiful Friday. Well, what day is not beautiful when you live in Southern California? This is where you are, correct? So I love when I meet somebody in California, and they say something as banal as, my God, we're having such beautiful weather

today.

And I say the weather hasn't changed since the Pleistocene era, 1.2 million years ago.

What a banal statement.

But yes, it's great to meet you.

For those, let me just take a moment.

Go ahead, go ahead.

The whole point of causal reasoning is to treat the banal happening as if you are grateful for someone.

So true. For those of you who don't understand that particular quip, it's because Professor Pearl is a world-renowned expert on causality

and how you would model it and say AI, artificial intelligence, we'll get to all that. Let me introduce

who you are. You're a professor of computer science and statistics and the director of the

cognitive systems laboratory at UCLA. As I mentioned to you privately, one of the best

ways for men to have a reduction of their testosterone is to go and watch your Google Scholar Citation

Index. It is simply beyond belief, 120,000 plus citations. This basically means that his Professor Perl's work has been cited 120,000 times.

His H index is 112, again a number that is difficult to believe. He's a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, Bayesian networks, and causality.

He's the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery's

Turing Award, which is akin to a Nobel Prize. Alan Turing is an unbelievable computer scientist

from the 1940s. Honorary doctorates from Hebrew University, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Texas A&M, Chapman,

and University of Toronto. And I'll just end with a partial list of his books.

Euristics, intelligent search strategies for computer problem solving, causality, models, reasoning,

and inference, a book of a different vibe. I am Jewish personal reflections inspired by the

last words of Daniel Pearl, an edited book, which we'll talk about later.

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