In the mind-over-data camp, there’s Dr. Judea Pearl, a Turing Award winner best known for his work on causal inference and Bayesian networks. The introduction to his book The Book of Why is entitled “Mind over Data,” in which he emphasizes: “Data is profoundly dumb.” In one of his more controversial posts on Twitter in 2020, he expressed his strong opinion against ML approaches that rely heavily on data and warned that data-centric ML people might be out of a job in three to five years: “ML will not be the same in 3–5 years, and ML folks who continue to follow the current data-centric paradigm
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