{"id":118797,"date":"2021-01-23T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-explainable-artificial-intelligence-can-help-humans-innovate"},"modified":"2021-01-23T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T12:23:15","slug":"how-explainable-artificial-intelligence-can-help-humans-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-explainable-artificial-intelligence-can-help-humans-innovate","title":{"rendered":"How Explainable Artificial Intelligence Can Help Humans Innovate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-explainable-artificial-intelligence-can-help-humans-innovate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like this idea. I don\u2019t want AI to be a black box, I want to know what\u2019s happening and how its doing it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The field of artificial intelligence has created computers that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/20\/business\/self-driving-cars-cadillac-super-cruise.html\">drive cars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2006.15820.pdf\">synthesize chemical compounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-020-03348-4\">fold proteins<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/ncomms5308\">detect high-energy particles<\/a> at a superhuman level.<\/p>\n<p>However, these AI algorithms cannot explain the thought processes behind their decisions. A computer that <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2020\/12\/15\/deepminds-alphafold-is-close-to-solving-one-of-biologys-greatest-challenges\/\">masters protein folding<\/a> and also tells researchers more about the rules of biology is much more useful than a computer that folds proteins without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=R3ru5X8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao\">AI researchers like me<\/a> are now turning our efforts toward developing AI algorithms that can explain themselves in a manner that humans can understand. If we can do this, I believe that AI will be able to uncover and teach people new facts about the world that have not yet been discovered, leading to new innovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this idea. I don\u2019t want AI to be a black box, I want to know what\u2019s happening and how its doing it. The field of artificial intelligence has created computers that can drive cars, synthesize chemical compounds, fold proteins, and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level. However, these AI algorithms cannot explain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,41,48,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118797","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}