Can This AI Pioneer Make Algorithms Understand Cause and Effect?

Known as the "Nobel Prize of computing," the Turing Award is regarded as the highest honor in computer science. The three researchers received this prestigious accolade for their contributions to deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) development that's largely responsible for the technology's current renaissance. While deep learning has unlocked vast advances in facial recognition, natural language processing, and autonomous vehicles, it still struggles to explain causal relationships in data. Not one to rest on his laurels, Bengio is now on a new mission: To teach AI to ask "Why?". Bengio views AI's inability to "connect the dots" as a serious problem. Deep learning's pattern recognition capabilities have revolutionized technology.