Insights into black box of artificial intelligence

At many banks, insurance companies and online retailers, self-learning computer algorithms are used to make decisions that have major consequences for customers. However, just how algorithms in artificial intelligence (AI) represent and process their input data internally is largely unknown. They have published their results in the journal Neural Networks. 'What we call artificial intelligence today is based on deep artificial neural networks that roughly mimic human brain functions,' explains Dr. Patrick Krauss from the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Group at FAU. As is the case in children learning their native language without being aware of the rules of grammar, AI algorithms can learn to make the right choice by independently comparing a large amount of input data.