A good summary of why probabilistic models are important is this article by the legendary Chris Bishop: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/d

A good summary of why probabilistic models are important is this article by the legendary Chris Bishop: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/downloads/bishop-mbml-2012.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/downl...