Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-12-11
Books mentioned on Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that’s generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and statistics.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Book of Why
The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie explores the science of cause and effect, revolutionizing how we understand data, probability, and human reasoning.
Recommended“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.”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Book of Why
“I wrote "The Book of Why" in order to democratize common sense.”