probabilistic

adjective prob·a·bi·lis·tic \ ˌprä-bə-bə-ˈli-stik \

|Updated on: 8 Jul 2018

Definition of probabilistic

1 : of or relating to probabilism

2 : of, relating to, or based on probability

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probabilistically

play \ˌprä-bə-bə-ˈli-sti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Recent Examples of probabilistic from the Web

Knowing this, investors must make probabilistic decisions using incomplete information about an unknowable future.

— barry ritholtz, latimes.com, "The markets don't care about your wants or needs," 19 May 2018
Last September, Intel introduced the world to Loihi, a chip designed for what Intel calls probabilistic computing.

— mark hachman, PCWorld, "Intel's Loihi roadmap calls for its brain chips to be as 'smart' as a mouse by 2019," 14 May 2018
But as Pearl sees it, the field of AI got mired in probabilistic associations.

— kevin hartnett, The Atlantic, "How a Pioneer of Machine Learning Became One of Its Sharpest Critics," 19 May 2018
Likewise, employing a probabilistic approach from the global model ensembles allows us to quantify a level of confidence in the predictions.

— jason samenow, Washington Post, "Trump administration official says it’s a ‘top priority’ to improve U.S. weather forecasting model," 23 Apr. 2018
To deal with that unpredictability, Noah Goodman, a psychologist and computer scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, helps develop probabilistic programming languages (PPLs).

— matthew hutson, Science | AAAS, "How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child," 24 May 2018
Pearl is a professor of computer science at UCLA and winner of the 2011 Turing Award for his work on probabilistic and causal reasoning.

— judea pearl and, WSJ, "AI Can’t Reason Why," 18 May 2018
Intel sees probabilistic computing as an important step on the road to artificial intelligence.

— mark hachman, PCWorld, "Intel's Loihi roadmap calls for its brain chips to be as 'smart' as a mouse by 2019," 14 May 2018
That’s pretty much exactly the wrong way to describe such a forecast, since a probabilistic forecast is an expression of uncertainty.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "Americans Don’t Understand Probabilities – and It Could Affect Election Turnout," 10 Feb. 2018

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