{"id":102881,"date":"2020-02-26T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/were-making-progress-in-explainable-ai-but-major-pitfalls-remain"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:02:51","slug":"were-making-progress-in-explainable-ai-but-major-pitfalls-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/were-making-progress-in-explainable-ai-but-major-pitfalls-remain","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Making Progress in Explainable AI, but Major Pitfalls Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-making-progress-in-explainable-ai-but-major-pitfalls-remain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even in this experiment, though, the \u201cpsychology\u201d of the algorithm in decision-making is counter-intuitive. For example, in the basketball case, the most important factor in making the decision was actually the player\u2019s jerseys rather than the basketball.<\/p>\n<p><b>Can You Explain What You Don\u2019t Understand?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While it may seem trivial, the conflict here is a fundamental one in approaches to artificial intelligence. Namely, how far can you get with mere statistical associations between huge sets of data, and how much do you need to introduce abstract concepts for real intelligence to arise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in this experiment, though, the \u201cpsychology\u201d of the algorithm in decision-making is counter-intuitive. For example, in the basketball case, the most important factor in making the decision was actually the player\u2019s jerseys rather than the basketball. Can You Explain What You Don\u2019t Understand? While it may seem trivial, the conflict here is a fundamental [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}