From Correlation to Causation in Machine Learning: Why and How
Why our AI needs to understand causality
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6 min readOct 31, 2020
What’s wrong with correlation?
In May 2016, the COMPAS algorithm was flagged as being racially biased [1]. This algorithm was used by the US to guide criminal sentencing by predicting likelihood of reoffending. It estimated a black person was…
