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Title: Book of Why
Author: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Narrator: Mel Foster
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2018-05-15
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Genres: Science & Technology, Computers, General
Publisher's Summary:
Correlation is not causation. This mantra, espoused by scientists for more than a century, led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, led by AI researcher Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through years of confusion about the nature of knowledge and established the study of causality at the center of scientific inquiry.
In The Book of Why, Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie explain why causal thinking, manifested in our ability to imagine the consequences of our actions, is among humanity's greatest gifts. It enables us to answer questions that generations of scientists could not touch.
Beginning with simple scenarios, like whether it was rain or a lawn sprinkler that got a sidewalk wet, the authors show how causal thinking solves some of today's hardest problems, including: whether a drug cured an illness; whether an employer has discriminated against some applicants; and whether we can blame a heat wave on global warming. Causal thinking also enables us to imagine the consequences of what could but did not happen: What if you had not bought this book? Pearl's work shows us how to answer a counterfactual not just with speculation but with convincing scientific rigor.
The most profound implications of the study of causality, however, may lie in the field of artificial intelligence. Today's machine learning relies on correlations, not causation. Causal thinking will transform computers into true scientists. And because causal thinking reveals culpability, it could transform computers into moral beings-perhaps the most important thing we could do with machines poised to take over our lives.
Much like Thinking, Fast and Slow, The Book of Why is among the rare books that will both upend the foundations of scientific thought and empower ordinary people with new understanding of their own thinking.
The accompanying reference guide is included as a PDF.