A 6 Minute Introduction to Causal AI

Modern AI systems have made it easy to tackle many problems previously thought out of reach of computers. These systems are so good that they have convinced even those working on developing them that they are sentient. However, despite the successes, many of these systems can be thought of as technological parrots. Parrots can mimic their owners, but do not have a true awareness of what they are saying, nor why they are saying it. Similarly, modern AI systems can mimic the patterns they have learnt from previous data, without having the true context of the problem which is being solved, nor understanding why a given prediction is returned.