Causal Bandits Podcast Alex Molak

Send us a Text Message. Causal AI: The Melting Pot. Can Physics, Math & Biology Help Us?What is the relationship between physics and causal models?What can science of non-human animal behavior teach causal AI researchers?Bernhard Schölkopf's rich background and experience allow him to combine perspectives from computation, physics, mathematics, biology, theory of evolution, psychology and ethology to build a deep understanding of underlying principles that govern complex systems and ...

Send us a Text Message. What makes two tech giants collaborate on an open source causal AI package?Emre's adventure with causal inference and causal AI has started before it was trendy. He's one of the original core developers of DoWhy - one of the most popular and powerful Python libraries for causal inference - and a researcher focused on the intersection of causal inference, causal discovery, generative modeling and social impact.His unique perspective, inspired by his experience with...

Send us a Text Message.Recorded on Jan 17, 2024 in London, UK. Video version available hereWhat makes so many predictions about the future of AI wrong?And what's possible with the current paradigm?From medical imaging to song recommendations, the association-based paradigm of learning can be helpful, but is not sufficient to answer our most interesting questions.Meet Athanasios (Thanos) Vlontzos who looks for inspirations everywhere around him to build causal machine learning and causal infer...

Send us a Text Message.Video version available here Are markets efficient, and if not, can causal models help us leverage the inefficiencies?Do we really need to understand what we're modeling?What's the role of symmetry in modeling financial markets?What are the main challenges in applying causal models in finance?Ready to dive in? About The GuestAlexander Denev is the CEO of Turnleaf Analytics. He's an author of multiple books on financial modeling and a former Head of AI (Financial Service...

Send us a Text Message.Love Causal Bandits Podcast?Help us bring more quality content: Support the showVideo version of this episode is available hereCausal Inference with LLMs and Reinforcement Learning Agents?Do LLMs have a world model?Can they reason causally?What's the connection between LLMs, reinforcement learning, and causality?Andrew Lampinen, PhD (Google DeepMind) shares the insights from his research on LLMs, reinforcement learning, causal inference and generalizable agents.We also ...

Send us a Text Message.Support the showVideo version available on YouTubeDo We Need Probability?Causal inference lies at the very heart of the scientific method. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs; also known as randomized experiemnts or A/B tests) are often called "the golden standard for causal inference".It's a less known fact that randomized trials have their limitations in answering causal questions.What are the most common myths about randomization?What causal questions can and cannot b...