Causal deep learning teaches AI to ask why

Deep learning techniques do a good job at building models by correlating data points. But many AI researchers believe that more work needs to be done to understand causation and not just correlation. The field of causal deep learning -- useful in determining why something happened -- is still in its infancy, and it is much more difficult to automate than neural networks. Much of AI is about finding hidden patterns in large amounts of data. Soumendra Mohanty, executive vice president and chief data analytics officer at L&T Infotech, a global IT service company, said, "Obviously, this aspect drives us to the'what,' but rarely do we go down the path of understanding the'why.'"