Learning Bayesian Statistics
Can AI Learn What Experts Know? Automating Prior Elicitation with Generative Models
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Today's clip is from episode 158 featuring Stefan Radev. In this conversation, Alex and Stefan explore a genuinely fascinating problem: how do you turn an expert's intuition into a mathematically valid prior distribution - and can AI help automate that process?
Alex explains that prior elicitation is essentially a translation problem. Experts don't walk around thinking in probability…