Kevin Hartnett in Quanta: 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 … Continue reading To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect