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“... seeks to make inferences from observational rather than experimental data.This is a question that Judea Pearl has been working on for more than thirty years. During this time, he and his students have, as Dominic Cummings’s eccentric Downing Street job advert put it, ‘transformed the field’. In the 1980s, it seemed to some researchers, including ...”

“... come to understand that world.The use of the word ‘understand’ is perhaps too anthropomorphic. Judea Pearl, a proponent of a different approach to AI, responded to Sutskever’s interview by tweeting a list of things that can make accurate predictions without possessing understanding: Babylonian astronomers, dogs chasing frisbees, probability ...”

“... the first two years of the ‘war on terror’ have already been forgotten. An exception is Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, who, early in 2002, was lured to a fashionable restaurant in Karachi, kidnapped and then executed by his captors. A video showing Pearl’s throat being slit was ...”