Beyond the black box of conventional AI
In high-risk, high-value industries such as energy, healthcare, and finance there is too much at stake to trust the decisions of a machine at face value, with no explainable understanding of its reasoning.
Since machine learning is a component for many AI systems, it’s important for us to know precisely what the machine is learning. Machine learning is a great method for handling lots of data that can tell you the “what.” But for AI systems to become trusted advisors to human decision-makers they need to be able to explain the "why."
