<story><title>Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding</title><url>https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&amp;mode=form&amp;id=1606a253407e8773bdd1a9e884cc5293</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyc</author><text>This is important because there exists a trade-off in statistical learning models: in general, the more flexible your models are, the less understandable they become[0]. Modern machine learning techniques are typically very flexible.&lt;p&gt;To gain intuition and reasoning of a model is to have understanding and trust--transparency. When you strike a nail with a hammer, it&amp;#x27;s pretty predictable what might happen: the nail could get hit, the hammer could miss, or very rarely, the hammer&amp;#x27;s head may fly off of the handle. When you replace the hammer with a black box that works correctly 99.999% of the time, but for 0.001%, something completely unpredictable happens, then there&amp;#x27;s a problem with volatility because that unpredictable event may have unacceptable consequences. I think explainable AI could help with intuitive and more fine-grained risk analysis, and that&amp;#x27;s certainly a good thing in high-stakes applications such as defense.&lt;p&gt;[0] ISLR, Page 25: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&amp;#x2F;~gareth&amp;#x2F;ISL&amp;#x2F;ISLR%20First%20Printing.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&amp;#x2F;~gareth&amp;#x2F;ISL&amp;#x2F;ISLR%20First%20Printing.p...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding</title><url>https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&amp;mode=form&amp;id=1606a253407e8773bdd1a9e884cc5293</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dim25</author><text>Direct link to detailed specification [PDF]:   &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fbo.gov&amp;#x2F;utils&amp;#x2F;view?id=ae0b129bca1080cc7c517e8dadfa3ca2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fbo.gov&amp;#x2F;utils&amp;#x2F;view?id=ae0b129bca1080cc7c517e8dad...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related FAQ [PDF]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.darpa.mil&amp;#x2F;attachments&amp;#x2F;XAIFAQ8-26.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.darpa.mil&amp;#x2F;attachments&amp;#x2F;XAIFAQ8-26.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>