{"id":4637,"date":"2025-03-04T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.istratech.hr\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:03:30","slug":"causal-inference-an-upgrade-to-statistical-inference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istratech.hr\/en\/causal-inference-an-upgrade-to-statistical-inference\/","title":{"rendered":"Causal inference &#8211; an upgrade to statistical inference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is standardly divided into <strong>symbolic<\/strong> (often called logical AI) and <strong>subsymbolic<\/strong> (referred to as statistical AI).<br \/>\nToday, neural networks are in the center of attention, as the most important part of subsymbolic AI. However, in certain applications (e.g., AlphaGeometry), excellent results are achieved by combining neural networks with symbolic AI (known as <strong>neuro-symbolic AI<\/strong>).<br \/>\nOne subset of neuro-symbolic AI is a synergistic combination of causal inference and neural networks (note: if causal inference and neural networks are used relatively independently, it is not considered &#8220;true&#8221; neuro-symbolic AI).<br \/>\nToday, <strong>causal inference<\/strong> is considered important to achieve more advanced AI, e.g. this opinion is shared by one of the &#8220;fathers&#8221; of deep neural networks, Yoshua Bengio (one of the winners of the 2018 Turing Award).<br \/>\nThe presentation\/paper will cover some of its basics. It includes both <strong>causal learning<\/strong>, which involves building a causal model, and <strong>causal reasoning<\/strong>, where the causal model is used together with data for causal reasoning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istratech.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ZSV-nastavnika-informatike-Istarske-zupanije.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIEW LECTURE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper presents the basics of causal inference, which is important today for achieving more advanced artificial intelligence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[172,329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-en","category-case-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Causal inference - an upgrade to statistical inference &#8211; 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