Explainable AI Breaks Out of the Black Box

Over the last 12 months or so there's been incredible excitement about artificial intelligence and all of the amazing things it can do for us--everything from driving cars to making pizza (super-cool video!). But -- and this is a big "but" -- artificial intelligence comes with many challenges, including trying to decipher what these models have learned, and thus their decision criteria. In my last post, I discussed how regulations such as Europe's General Data Protection Regulation will demand Explainable AI. This is a field of science that attempts to remove the black box and deliver AI performance while also providing an explanation as to the "how" and "why" a model derives its decisions. FICO has been pioneering Explainable AI for over 25 years; one of our recent Explainable AI patent filings replaced a patent awarded back in 1998.