#causality

#causality

Halpern co-authored three books and contributed to more than 300 research papers over the course of his 45-year career. "He was a towering figure in theoretical computer science and a beloved faculty member," said Lorenzo Alvisi, the Tisch University Professor in Computer Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. "Joe was as close to the ideal of a Renaissance man as I have met."

Neurosymbolic AI fuses the statistical power, pattern recognition, and adaptability of neural networks-think large language models (LLMs)-with the logical, rule-based structure of symbolic reasoning that can predict real outcomes while helping prevent the hallucinations generative AI (GenAI) may produce. Correlation isn't causation. Summer is, of course, prime ice cream season in California, and that's also when shark bites are most prevalent-but enjoying your mint chip cone won't make it more likely you'll get bitten. Neurosymbolic AI sorts out the coincidence and lets you dig down into what's really causing those shark bites.

Much has been written about the relationship between social media use and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It requires no citations to state that social media use has increased over the last 20 years, as have diagnoses of ADHD. The question is whether there is any kind of meaningful relationship between the two. Correlations between events can sometimes mean nothing other than both events are related to something else, but not to each other.