The Toyota Research Institute announced today its partnership with UCLA and 15 other academic institutions to participate in its collaborative research program on artificial intelligence over the next five years, with funding totaling more than $75 million.
Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has been selected to join the program. With more than $750,000 in funding over the next two years, his research will focus on transforming data science from its current paradigm, “data fitting,” to one that leads to robust and useful data interpretation.
According to Pearl, “data fitting” is the term used to characterize the current thinking that dominates both statistics and machine-learning cultures. This view is driven by a belief that the secret to rational decisions lies within the data themselves and…
