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One of big challenges of many state-of-the-art AI techniques such as deep learning is that their results do not come with any explanations – and, taking into account that some of the resulting conclusions and recommendations are far from optimal, it is difficult to distinguish good advice from bad one. It is therefore desirable to come up with explainable AI. In this paper, we argue that fuzzy techniques are a proper way to this explainability, and we also analyze which fuzzy techniques are most appropriate for this purpose. Interestingly, it turns out that the answer depends on what problem we are solving: e.g., different “and”- and “or”-operations are preferable when we are controlling a single object and when we are controlling a group of objects.
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science), and HRD-1834620 and HRD-2034030 (CAHSI Includes). It was also supported by the program of the development of the Scientific-Educational Mathematical Center of Volga Federal District No. 075-02-2020-1478.
The authors are thankful to the anonymous referees for valuable suggestions.
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Cohen, K., Bokati, L., Ceberio, M., Kosheleva, O., Kreinovich, V. (2022). Why Fuzzy Techniques in Explainable AI? Which Fuzzy Techniques in Explainable AI?. In: Rayz, J., Raskin, V., Dick, S., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Explainable AI and Other Applications of Fuzzy Techniques. NAFIPS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82099-2_7
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