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Re:For AI to thrive, it must explain itself by ghaff on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:40AM (#16406807)
>But if the non-explainable system is better even than experts, I think most people would want the non-explainable system.

Maybe? You'd have to convince me in areas as medicine. Why are you recommending this treatment path? "Dunno. The computers says so."

Mind you, the doctor may well not in reality have a lot more solid basis for his recommendation. But at least there's the appearance of logical justification.

Re:For AI to thrive, it must explain itself by chrisfosterelli on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:46AM (#16406838)
Is that because you care about verifiability though, or actually interpretability? If the system provides you a diagnosis without context, but later can be confirmed by actually testing for that condition, do you still refuse treatment because you don't know how the original diagnosis was suggested?
Re:For AI to thrive, it must explain itself by ghaff on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:57AM (#16406902)
Oh, if it's a recommendation for running some tests, I can't imagine much pushback unless they're particularly invasive or expensive. It's not like doctors don't order large panels of tests at the drop of a hat.

If you then have treatment based on those tests, that's really a doctor being assisted by an AI at that point.

Re:For AI to thrive, it must explain itself by marcosdumay on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:22PM (#16408256)
The current explanation for anything in medicine is "Dunno, we tested it and it seems to work". It is a much better one than "The computer says so", but it's one the computer can tell you too.