Kevin Hartnett in The Atlantic: Artificial intelligence owes a lot of its smarts to Judea Pearl. In the 1980s he led efforts that allowed machines to reason probabilistically. Now he’s one of the field’s sharpest critics. In his latest book, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, he argues that artificial intelligence has … Continue reading How a Pioneer of Machine Learning Became One of Its Sharpest Critics