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Standard and Deep Opacity

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Some opacity is standard — removable in principle with effort and access — while some may be deep, ineliminable from learned systems of this kind; the two demand different responses.

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Explainable-AI research is the attempted remedy, with an unresolved debate underneath about what an interpretation certifies.

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Which opacity a deployed system has is partly a purchase — the next two videos price it.