A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the "black box" that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times)

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, computers were still just computers.