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.'"

The implications for this distinction could be significant. Ultimately, creating machines
that mimic human intelligencewill require training AI to ask why one observation affects
another. This is why many researchers are now turning their