eXplainable Artificial Intelligence(XAI): A Welcome Step Towards Responsible AI

XAI Is helping to create a shared understanding between AI and the people who rely on it.

Tanmay Deshpande
The Startup
Published in
3 min readJul 30, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of everything we do. Right from suggesting what to buy on Amazon to recommending the songs on Spotify. Chatbots have made our customer service operations way too simpler. In the recent pandemic, we have even seen governments using AI to detect face mask violations.

The advanced practices of AI have even seen success in building autonomous vehicles, where companies like Google, Baidu, Uber, etc. are quite advanced in this direction. AI has made its mark in various other fields like healthcare, banking, retail, and many more.

As we start using AI to get complex tasks done, we need to understand why the algorithm made certain decisions and why not the other. The higher transparency we can get into the AI black box, it would easier for people to believe and use it for doing better things. This exact thought gave rise to the field of eXplainable AI (XAI).

Explainable AI

As per the Wikipedia definition —

Explainable AI (XAI) refers to methods and…

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