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Why did the frog cross the road? Georgia Tech’s newest artificial intelligence (AI) system plays the video game Frogger and can offer up explanations to human spectators about why it makes each move.Upol Ehsan, Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, talks about the AI system. The work takes a formative step towards understanding the role of natural language AI explanations and how humans perceive them. It’s a human-centered approach to developing AI agents, one that Upol says is needed in order to make black-boxed AI systems explainable to everyday users.RELATED LINKS:BLOG POSTGEORGIA TECH’S NEWEST AI SYSTEM CAN MIMIC THINKING OUT LOUD AND EXPLAIN ITS DECISION TO NON-EXPERTS IN REAL-TIME (https://mlatgt.blog/2019/04/09/georgia-techs-newest-ai-system-can-mimic-thinking-out-loud-and-explain-its-decision-to-non-experts-in-real-time/)RESEARCH PAPERUpol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, and Mark O. Riedl. Automated rationale generation: A technique for explainable AI and its effects on human perceptions (https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03729). In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2019.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CREDITS:Podcast produced and hosted by Joshua Preston (Contact: jpreston@cc.gatech.edu)Audio engineering by Tim TrentMusic from https://filmmusic.io:"Overriding Concern" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Music from https://filmmusic.io:"Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)