AI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
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Emre, Amit, let’s jump right in. I’m so excited to speak with you both about causal reasoning. And this is such a timely conversation because we’re living through the rise of generative pretrained models, specifically large language models. And when I’ve engaged with GPT-4 in dialogue, depending on what I ask, it can appear to be doing something resembling causal reasoning. And as a machine learning person myself, I have to say this is not something that I’d expected to see from a neural network that works based on analyzing and generating statistical patterns. Um, you know, this is something that before this time last year, I thought of as a uniquely human skill as I think maybe many others have, as well. Now, both of you