What is AI Explainability?
The ability of AI systems to provide clear, understandable explanations for their decisions and reasoning processes.
Definition
AI Explainability is the capability of artificial intelligence systems to provide clear, understandable explanations for their decisions, predictions, and reasoning processes in terms that humans can comprehend and evaluate.
Purpose
Explainability enables trust, accountability, and debugging in AI systems by allowing users to understand why specific decisions were made, identify potential biases, and verify that the AI is reasoning correctly.
Function
Explainability works through various techniques including attention visualization, feature importance analysis, decision tree approximations, and natural language explanations that reveal the factors and logic behind AI outputs.
Example
A medical AI that diagnoses diseases not only provides the diagnosis but explains "I identified pneumonia based on the cloudy patches in the lower left lung area, similar to patterns seen in 847 previous cases."
Related
Connected to Interpretable AI, Transparency, AI Ethics, Trust, Accountability, and Regulatory Compliance in AI systems.
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