{"id":150809,"date":"2022-11-22T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/neurips-why-causal-representation-learning-may-be-the-future-of-ai"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:23:33","slug":"neurips-why-causal-representation-learning-may-be-the-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/neurips-why-causal-representation-learning-may-be-the-future-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"NeurIPS: Why causal-representation learning may be the future of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurips-why-causal-representation-learning-may-be-the-future-of-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.science\/videos-webinars\/neurips-luminaries-on-the-future-of-ai\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" >conversation<\/a> right before the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Amazon vice president and distinguished scientist Bernhard Sch\u00f6lkopf \u2014 according to Google Scholar, the most <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label: causal_inference\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" >highly cited researcher<\/a> in the field of causal inference \u2014 said that the next frontier in artificial-intelligence research was causal-representation learning.<\/p>\n<p>Where existing approaches to causal inference use machine learning to discover causal relationships between variables \u2014 say, the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.science\/blog\/new-method-identifies-the-root-causes-of-statistical-outliers\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" >latencies of various interrelated services<\/a> on a website \u2014 <i>causal-representation learning<\/i> learns the variables themselves. \u201cThese kinds of causal representations will also go toward <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.science\/blog\/amazon-at-acl-how-to-teach-machines-to-reason\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" >reasoning<\/a>, which we will ultimately need if we want to move away from this pure pattern recognition view of intelligence,\u201d Sch\u00f6lkopf said.<\/p>\n<p>Francesco Locatello, a senior applied scientist with Amazon Web Services, leads Amazon\u2019s research on <i>causal-representation learning<\/i>, and he\u2019s a coauthor on four papers at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.science\/conferences-and-events\/neurips-2022\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" >this year\u2019s NeurIPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a conversation right before the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Amazon vice president and distinguished scientist Bernhard Sch\u00f6lkopf \u2014 according to Google Scholar, the most highly cited researcher in the field of causal inference \u2014 said that the next frontier in artificial-intelligence research was causal-representation learning. Where existing approaches to causal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}