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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. He has developed and championed probabilistic approaches to AI, including Bayesian Networks and profound ideas in causality in general. These ideas are important not just for AI, but to our understanding and practice of science. But in the field of AI, the idea of causality, cause and effect, to many, lies at the core of what is currently missing and what must be developed in order to build truly intelligent systems. For this reason, and many others, his work is worth returning to often.

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Free will is an illusion that we AI people are gonna solve.

So what do you think, once we solve it, that solution will look like?

will look like, first of all, it will look like a machine.

A machine that act as though it has free will.

It communicates with other machines as though they have free will, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a machine that does and a machine that doesn't have free will.

So the illusion, it propagates the illusion of free will amongst the other machines.

Okay, that's what Turing tests are about.

Faking intelligence is intelligence because it's not easy to fake.


Speaker 0: What about free will? Free will is also a nice exercise. Free will is an illusion that we AI people are gonna solve.

Speaker 1: So what do you think, once we solve it, that solution will look like? Once we put it in the page. The solution

Speaker 0: will look like, first of all, it will look like a machine. A machine that act as though it has free will. It communicates with other machines as though they have free will, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a machine that does and a machine that doesn't have free will. Okay?

Speaker 1: So the illusion, it propagates the illusion of free will amongst the other machines.

Speaker 0: And faking it is having it. Okay, that's what Turing tests are about. Faking intelligence is intelligence because it's not easy to fake. It's very hard to fake. And you can only fake if you have it.

You know? So.

Speaker 2: That's such a beautiful statement. That's, yeah, you could, yeah. You can't fake it if

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