The Book of Why
it’s doubtful whether life can really be reduced to data flows. In particular, at present we have no idea how or why data flows could produce consciousness and subjective experiences.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
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How can machines (and people) represent causal knowledge in a way that would enable them to access the necessary information swiftly, answer questions correctly, and do it with ease, as a three-year-old child can? In fact, this is the main question we address in this book.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
The rewards of having a causal model that can answer counterfactual questions are immense. Finding out why a blunder occurred allows us to take the right corrective measures in the future. Finding out why a treatment worked on some people and not on others can lead to a new cure for a disease. Answering the question “What if things had been differe
... See moreDana Mackenzie • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
some queries may not be answerable under the current causal model,