[0xdeadbeefbabe]

I feel annoyed with opaqueness of ML algorithms like neural networks. I hope ML doesn't unwittingly define itself as a field where machines learn, but humans may not learn. I'm referring to predicaments like the story about 42 from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

[darkmighty]

That's definitively an interesting problem. Just note in many cases we're not even interested in learning the tasks. For example, you don't need any person to actually know that consumers aged 25-29 years old prefer a certain product 10% more than consumers aged 21-25, and so on.

But humans are still the ones responsible for important high level decisions, so it still makes sense to maximize information transparency to enable good decisions in those contexts.

A neural network that given a prediction 'X is most likely' and could answer the question "Why?" with 'Because Y' would be amazing.