The book of why - Judea Pearl

'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read'
- Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow


'"Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence and have redefined the term "thinking machine"'
- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.





The influential book in how causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence

'Correlation
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 Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The
Book of Why explains how we can think better.