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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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Do you have advice for young minds today dreaming about creating, as you have, dreamt creating intelligent systems?

What is the best way to arrive at new breakthrough ideas and carry them through the fire of criticism and past conventional ideas?

If they are really dumb, you will find out quickly by trying an arrow to see that they're not leading any place.

But Follow them and try to understand things your way.

There is a lot of, It's the inertia in science, in academia.

Yeah, those 2 words, your way, that's a powerful thing.

It's against inertia, potentially, against the flow.

I wrote the book of why in order to democratize common sense.

In order to instill rebellious spirit in students so they wouldn't wait until the professor get things right.


Speaker 0: Do you have advice for young minds today dreaming about creating, as you have, dreamt creating intelligent systems? What is the best way to arrive at new breakthrough ideas and carry them through the fire of criticism and past conventional ideas?

Speaker 1: Ask your questions. Really, your questions are never dumb. And solve them your own way. And don't take no for an answer. If they are really dumb, you will find out quickly by trying an arrow to see that they're not leading any place.

But Follow them and try to understand things your way. That is my advice. I don't know if it's gonna help anyone.

Speaker 0: No, that's brilliant.

Speaker 1: There is a lot of, It's the inertia in science, in academia. It is slowing down science.

Speaker 0: Yeah, those 2 words, your way, that's a powerful thing. It's against inertia, potentially, against the flow.

Speaker 1: Against your professor.

Speaker 0: Against your professor.

Speaker 1: I wrote the book of why in order to democratize common sense.

Speaker 0: Yes.

Speaker 1: In order to instill rebellious spirit in students so they wouldn't wait until the professor get things right.

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