r/MachineLearning - [R] To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect

Just FYI: "Judea Pearl created the representational and computational foundation for the processing of information under uncertainty. He is credited with the invention of Bayesian networks,..." His wiki page doesn't list his contributions, it links to other people's summaries of his contributions. The guy you say is stuck in an old paradigm is one of the main inventors of the new paradigm.