February 04, 2016 at 12:53PM
"People understand the linear algebra behind deep learning. But the models it produces are less human-readable." #readingToday

"People understand the linear algebra behind deep learning. But the models it produces are less human-readable. They're machine-readable," Chris Nicholson, the founder of the deep learning startup Skymind, told Wired. "They can retrieve very accurate results, but we can't always explain, on an individual basis, what led them to those accurate results."

Amit Singhal, a long-term leader of Google's search engine operations, is leaving the company, and the choice for his replacement could signal how the tech giant hopes to integrate artificial intelligence into its services.