DARPA is funding research into AI that can explain what it's "thinking"

Researchers will hold the next wave of artificial intelligences (AI) to the same standard as high school math students everywhere: no credit if you don't show your work. On Friday, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a Department of Defense (DoD) agency focused on breakthrough technologies, announced its Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program. This program will streamline the agency's process for funding AI research and development with a focus on third wave AI technologies -- the kinds that can understand and explain how they arrived at an answer. Most of the AI in use today falls under the category of first wave. These AIs follow clear, logical rules (think: chess-playing AIs).