TechDispatch : explainable artificial intelligence; #2/2023

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing in sectors such as healthcare, finance, transportation, manufacturing and entertainment. Its increasing popularity in recent years is largely due to its ability to automate tasks, such as processing large amounts of information or identifying patterns, and its widespread availability to the public. Large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, or text-to-image models, like Stable Diffusion, are two examples of AI that have gained large popularity in recent years. However, despite the growing use of AI, many of these systems operate in ways that are opaque to both those providing AI systems ('providers'), those deploying AI systems ('deployers'), and those affected by the use of AI systems. In the complex realm of AI systems, even the providers of these systems are often unable to explain the decisions and outcomes of the systems they have built. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as the "black box" effect.