The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)

Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

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A Turing Prize-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
 
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.
 
 

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一位圖靈獎得主的計算機科學家和統計學家展示了理解因果關係如何革命科學,並將革命化人工智能。

「相關不等於因果關係」。這句口號已經被科學家們反覆吟唱了一個多世紀,導致對因果談論的幾乎禁忌。如今,這種禁忌已經破除。由Judea Pearl及其同事發起的因果革命,穿越了一個世紀的困惑,確立了因果關係研究的堅實科學基礎。他的工作解釋了我們如何知道一些簡單的事情,比如是雨水還是灑水器使人行道濕潤;以及如何回答一些困難的問題,比如一種藥物是否治愈了一種疾病。Pearl的工作使我們不僅能知道一件事是否引起了另一件事:它還讓我們能夠探索現實世界和可能存在的世界。它向我們展示了人類思維的本質和人工智能的關鍵。任何想要理解這兩者的人都需要閱讀《為什麼的書》。