Now for a small elephant which entered the room: the article recites that it would be
> worth mentioning that the white-box / black-box terminology is in itself part of a long history of racially coded terms in science; researchers have pushed to change "blacklist" to "blocklist," for example
Very plainly, the idea of "black-box" comes from the clear, basic and original, notion and experience that
"in the dark, you cannot see".
So, back to the point: we need transparency in AI, because we need insight as much as we can gather, because there appears to be a drought, an arificial scarcity, of good sense, of [un]common sense. We need every boost of good, [un]common sense very direly.
> worth mentioning that the white-box / black-box terminology is in itself part of a long history of racially coded terms in science; researchers have pushed to change "blacklist" to "blocklist," for example
Very plainly, the idea of "black-box" comes from the clear, basic and original, notion and experience that
"in the dark, you cannot see".
So, back to the point: we need transparency in AI, because we need insight as much as we can gather, because there appears to be a drought, an arificial scarcity, of good sense, of [un]common sense. We need every boost of good, [un]common sense very direly.