{"id":220272,"date":"2025-08-16T20:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/theoretical-particle-physicist-tackles-machine-learnings-black-box"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:05:21","slug":"theoretical-particle-physicist-tackles-machine-learnings-black-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/theoretical-particle-physicist-tackles-machine-learnings-black-box","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical particle physicist tackles machine learning\u2019s black box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theoretical-particle-physicist-tackles-machine-learnings-black-box.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From self-driving cars to facial recognition, modern life is growing more dependent on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that learns from datasets without explicit programming.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its omnipresence in society, we\u2019re just beginning to understand the mechanisms driving the technology. In a recent study, Zhengkang (Kevin) Zhang, assistant professor in the University of Utah\u2019s Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy, demonstrated how physicists can play an important role in unraveling its mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople used to say <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/machine+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine learning<\/a> is a black box\u2014you input a lot of data and at some point, it reasons and speaks and makes decisions like humans do. It feels like magic because we don\u2019t really know how it works,\u201d said Zhang. \u201cNow that we\u2019re using AI across many critical sectors of society, we have to understand what our machine learning models are really doing\u2014why something works or why something doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From self-driving cars to facial recognition, modern life is growing more dependent on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that learns from datasets without explicit programming. Despite its omnipresence in society, we\u2019re just beginning to understand the mechanisms driving the technology. In a recent study, Zhengkang (Kevin) Zhang, assistant professor in the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220272","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}