Textbook of AI

1965–, Computer scientist

Pedro Domingos is a Portuguese-American computer scientist at the University of Washington whose 2015 popular-science book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World presented an accessible taxonomy of machine learning's "five tribes", symbolists, connectionists, evolutionaries, Bayesians, analogizers, and the prospect of unifying them.

His research has spanned data mining, Markov logic networks (a unification of first-order logic with probabilistic graphical models, with Matt Richardson, 2006), sum-product networks, and many years of practical text-mining and recommender-system contributions. He has been an outspoken commentator on AI policy and a critic of inflated AGI claims, occupying a "hopeful sceptic" middle position.