TensorFlow, Google's machine learning platform, is powerful--but it's far from perfect.

Google uses this machine learning software internally to add capabilities like speech recognition and object detection to its products. Now, it's available for everyone to use. What will this mean for the design of artificial intelligence systems? As wonderful as TensorFlow is, I fear that it may accelerate the design of AI systems that are hard to understand and hard to communicate with. I think it will focus our attention on experimenting with mathematical tricks, rather than on understanding human thought processes.