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What Does Explainable AI Really Mean? A New Conceptualization of Perspectives

Doran, D., Schulz, S.C. & Besold, T. R. (2018). What Does Explainable AI Really Mean? A New Conceptualization of Perspectives. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2071,

Abstract

We characterize three notions of explainable AI that cut across research fields: opaque systems that offer no insight into its algo- rithmic mechanisms; interpretable systems where users can mathemat- ically analyze its algorithmic mechanisms; and comprehensible systems that emit symbols enabling user-driven explanations of how a conclusion is reached. The paper is motivated by a corpus analysis of NIPS, ACL, COGSCI, and ICCV/ECCV paper titles showing differences in how work on explainable AI is positioned in various fields. We close by introducing a fourth notion: truly explainable systems, where automated reasoning is central to output crafted explanations without requiring human post processing as final step of the generative process.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: Copyright © 2018 for this paper by its authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Comprehensibility and Explanation in AI and ML 2017 co-located with 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2017) Bari, Italy, November 16th and 17th, 2017.
Publisher Keywords: cs.AI
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Computer Science
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