Book Review of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

Reviewed by F. E. Guerra-Pujol University of Central Florida [email protected]. The original PDF, with works cited, can be found here. Among other things, Frank Ramsey (b. 1903, d. 1930) was one of the first scholars, along with Bruno de Finetti (1974), to...

Criteria of AI Chronicle at AIWS.net

I. Scope: includes 3 fields Ideas, Theories, Concepts, and Methodologies for AI through applying AI. Inventions and Innovations in AI science and technology. AI applications, iniatives in politics, governments, society, economy, business, industry. Types...

The AI Chronicle and AIWS House start today, June 6, 2020

The Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, sets the foundation for a new historical chapter: the emergence of AI societies. Governor Michael Dukakis stressed the importance of studying history to prevent past mistakes from repeating...

The Artificial Intelligence Chronicle – Open to feedback

The History of AI, a part of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, starts post content of the AI Chronicle on AI World Society Network (AIWS.net). This content is the AI Chronicle – Open to Feedback: we encourage to receive comments,...

Professor Judea Pearl’s tweets

Glad you asked. I have been in this business for 3 decades and have not found anything clearer, more rigorous or friendlier than Chapter 4 of Primer. Here is a free link https://t.co/Sf5yw328zl. Enjoy, and don't let the mystics tell you counterfacuals...

Efficient Intervention Design for Causal Discovery with Latents

Raghavendra Addanki, Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Andrew McGregor, Cameron Musco Professor Judea Pearl wrote:”An interesting paper on causal discovery using both observations and interventions. The problem is to recover a causal graph while...

Plenary 2: The Mathematics of Causal Inference: with Reflections on Machine Learning

Professor Judea Pearl wrote:In my Microsoft lecture here, I talked about statistics as the “calculus of shadows” and causality as a 3D calculus. I can think of several 4D’s and 5D’s, like object-based and agent-based calculi. But...

What Statisticians Want to Know about Causal Inference and The Book of Why

I was privileged to be interviewed recently by David Hand, Professor of Statistics at Imperial College, London, and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society. I would like to share this interview with readers of this blog since many of the questions...

Former Prime MInister of Finland discussed the Social Contract 2020, a New Social Contract in the Age of AI

On May 12, 2020 at the online AIWS Roundtable, co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF), Former Prime Minister of Finland Esko Aho discussed the Social Contract 2020, a New Social Contract in...