The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect - Hardcover

Pearl, Judea; Mackenzie, Dana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 046509760X ISBN 13: 9780465097609

Verlag: Basic Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

An argument for how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence.

"Illuminating." ―New York Times

"Extraordinary." ―Science Friday

“Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, once led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, with causal analysis taking center stage in AI and other applications, the old taboos are a thing of the past.

The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and others, established causality on a firm scientific basis. Pearl showed how intuitive models can interface with data to help answer causal questions, such as whether a drug will cure an illness or, counterfactually, whether an illness would have persisted absent the drug. These models provide a blueprint for causal AI to learn and take responsibility for its mistakes.

Updated with a new preface and summary of recent advances, The Book of Why outlines the basics of cause and effect for lay readers and scientists alike, providing tools to explore the observable world and worlds that might have been.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Judea Pearl is chancellor’s professor of computer science at UCLA. The author of three foundational books in AI, he has won numerous awards, including the Alan Turing Award. He lives in Los Angeles, California.  

Dana Mackenzie is a PhD mathematician turned science writer. He has written or co-written fourteen books, mostly on mathematical topics. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 046509760X
• ISBN 13: 9780465097609
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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