The cases where you do need it are in creating a generalized AI, perhaps your use case is only for epidemiology, and of course that’s Perl’s background too. But

The cases where you do need it are in creating a generalized AI, perhaps your use case is only for epidemiology, and of course that’s Perl’s background too. But his arguing for general purpose AI and using his epidemiological expirence for demonstrating since it’s what he knows well. That’s my understanding from The Book of Why at least.