Chapter 1
The brain behind the screen
Chapter 2
Reading the robot mind
Chapter 3
Explaining the unexplainable
Ch 3 · Explaining the unexplainable
BETA
007skaty Swipe away distracting illusions to learn how your brain directs its attention.
007skaty Billions of parameters turn neural network decisions into an opaque black box prompting the creation of XAI tools to decode the math
Fun Fact
Translation fail: Early machine translation models failed at idioms, famously turning 'the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak' into 'the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.'
Quiz
In what year did Google researchers publish the seminal paper introducing Chain of Thought prompting?
Quiz
Which technique involves prompting an AI to write out its step-by-step reasoning before giving an answer?
Glossary
explainability (noun)
The quality or state of being capable of being understood, clarified, or accounted for. In February 2026, Zhen Tan presented a tutorial on interpreting complex language models at WSDM.
The quality or state of being capable of being understood, clarified, or accounted for. In February 2026, Zhen Tan presented a tutorial on interpreting complex language models at WSDM.
Quiz
If an AI classifies a husky as a wolf because of background snow, what is this error called?