Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl
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Judea Pearl discusses his contributions to AI and causal reasoning, along with his predictions for the future of AI.
Judea Pearl is a Turing Award winner and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and causal reasoning. We talked about how he got into science, his major breakthroughs and his predictions for AI today. • My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/ • The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-done Podcast links: • YouTube: https://youtu.be/FleTXB1fAcQ • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835 • Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/turing-award-winner-early-ai-llm Thank you to this episode's sponsor for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at https://workos.com/ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:54) How he got into AI (11:17) Greatest scientist of all time (20:15) What people thought of AI in the 80s (26:23) Entering academia and researching AI (34:52) The invention of Bayesian networks (46:28) Pioneering work in causality (55:38) The causal hierarchy (59:34) LLMs and predictions (01:20:12) A restless…
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