Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl
2026-07-27 · 88 min · 32 entities
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Episode description as stored
Judea Pearl is a Turing Award winner and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and causal reasoning. We talked about how he got into science, his major breakthroughs and his predictions for AI today.
• My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/
• The Kickstarter page for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-simple-ergonomics-beautifully-done
Podcast links:
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/FleTXB1fAcQ
• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835
• Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/turing-award-winner-early-ai-llm
Thank you to this episode's sponsor for supporting my work:
• WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at https://workos.com/
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:54) How he got into AI
(11:17) Greatest scientist of all time
(20:15) What people thought of AI in the 80s
(26:23) Entering academia and researching AI
(34:52) The invention of Bayesian networks
(46:28) Pioneering work in causality
(55:38) The causal hierarchy
(59:34) LLMs and predictions
(01:20:12) A restless mind pays
(01:24:36) Advice for his younger self
(01:26:37) Outro
Where to find Judea:
• X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/yudapearl
• Website: https://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl
Where to find Ryan:
• Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/
• X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/
• Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
Referenced in this episode:
• The Book of Why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Why
• Bayesian networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network
• Alpha-beta pruning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta_pruning
• Pearl vortex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_vortex
• Graphoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphoid
• Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(book)
• Coexistence and Other Fighting Words: Selected Writings of Judea Pearl, 2002–2025: https://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/COEXISTENCE/