Investor View: Explainable AI

What is driving the demand, how incumbents are responding, and how startups are already tackling explainability 2.0 Explainable AI helps a user understand the machine's decision-making process. Instead of discussing methods of explainable AI (e.g., LIME, SHAP, etc.), below are some dimensions to wrap our heads around the concept. What explainable AI means depends on the user, the object being explained, and the underlying data. It is such a broad and rapidly developing field that when discussing explainable AI in-depth, it is good to have a mental framework of how it fits these dimensions. Most examples in this article are products built for business decision makers analyzing tabular data.