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

ISBN-13: 9780141982410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str.

Dana Mackenzie

Opis

A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the worldCorrelation does not imply causation. This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearls discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we can think better.

Recenzje

Have you ever wondered about the puzzles of correlation and causation? This wonderful book has illuminating answers and it is fun to read Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

O autorze

Judea Pearl (Author)
Judea Pearl is a world-renowned Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, known for his world-leading work in AI and the development of Bayesian networks, as well as his theory of causal and counterfactual inference. In 2011, he won the most prestigious award in computer science, the Alan Turing Award. He has also received the Rumelhart Prize (Cognitive Science Society), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) and the Lakatos Award (London School of Economics), and he is the founder and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Dana Mackenzie, a Ph.D. mathematician turned science writer, has written for such magazines as Science, New Scientist, and Discover.