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user-inactivated  ·  2924 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier

If you're looking at machine learning as modeling a kind of thinking instead of just computational statistics (always a thing to be cautious about), it's modeling the kind of unconscious thinking you have a hard time explaining yourself. How do you know that's your friend standing in the crowd over there? You just recognize them, that's all. How do you walk without falling down? You just do it. How do you interpret a bunch of sounds as words? ...