The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning
17 Jun, 2020
A PDF of this paper can be found here. The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning by Judea Pearl The dramatic success in machine learning has led to an explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and increasing...
15 Jun, 2020
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 President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga, and Former Prime Minister Valdis Birkavs discussed the...
Frank Ramsey becomes a Figure in the History of AI
15 Jun, 2020
Professor Judea Pearl wrote: “Ramsey was definitely one of the clearest forerunners of subjective probabilities and the revival of Bayes statistics in the 20th century, which influenced the 1970-90 debate on how to represent uncertainty in AI systems.” Professor...
Video Highlights: Machine Learning and Causal Inference
15 Jun, 2020
In the IDSS Distinguished Seminar, Professor Susan Athey reviewed a series of recent papers that develop new methods based on Machine Learning methods to approach problems of causal inference, including estimation of conditional average treatment effects...
Telling and Re-telling History: The case for a whiggish account of the history of causation
11 Jun, 2020
Judea Pearl Cognitive Systems Laboratory Computer Science Department University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA [email protected] (Co-authored with Dana Mackenzie) March 12, 2019 Abstract This note was originally written for The Book...
The History of AI: Professor Cheryl Misak spoke about Frank Ramsey
07 Jun, 2020
The first event of the AIWS House, the History of AI, is the talk by University Professor of University of Toronto Cheryl Misak. Professor Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of UCLA, Turing Award, Member of the History of AI Board, advised and raised...
07 Jun, 2020
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 Bosnia & Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija discussed the Social Contract 2020,...
Book Review of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
06 Jun, 2020
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...
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