Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl is a Turing Award winner and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and causal reasoning. We talked about how he got into science, his major breakthroughs and his predictions for AI today. • My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/ • The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀: • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Y2M... • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... • Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/turing-a... 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at https://workos.com/ 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀: 00:00 Intro 00:54 How he got into AI 11:17 Greatest scientist of all time 20:15 What people thought of AI in the 80s 26:23 Entering academia and researching AI 34:52 The invention of Bayesian networks 46:28 Pioneering work in causality 55:38 The causal hierarchy 59:34 LLMs and predictions 01:20:12 A restless mind pays 01:24:36 Advice for his younger self 01:26:37 Outro 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗮: • X/Twitter:   / yudapearl   • Website: https://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_P... 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻: • Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman • LinkedIn:   / ryanlpeterman   • Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman • Instagram:   / ryanlpeterman   • TikTok:   / ryanlpeterman   𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲: • The Book of Why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo... • Bayesian networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesia... • Alpha-beta pruning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E... • Pearl vortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_v... • Graphoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphoid • Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causali...) • Coexistence and Other Fighting Words: Selected Writings of Judea Pearl, 2002–2025: https://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/COEXISTENCE/