Explainable AI: Interpreting the neuron soup of deep learning

Kate Saenko had a problem. Her AI algorithms tended to identify scientists as men and kitchen workers as women, and she didn't know why. An associate professor at Boston University's Department of Computer Science, Kate had been using deep learning to automate the captioning of images and videos. And to be true, the results were spectacular. Neural networks, the software structure that underlies deep learning, proved to be very good at generating human-like descriptions of digital imagery.