Explainable AI: Making Sense of the Black Box

The Black Square is an iconic painting by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. The first version was done in 1915. The Black Square continues to impress art historians even today, however it did not impress the then Soviet government and was kept in such poor conditions that it suffered significant cracking and decay. Complex machine learning algorithms can be mathematical work of art, but if these black box algorithms fail to impress and build trust with the users, They might be ignored like Malevich's black square. Dramatic success in machine learning has led to a surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.