Loveleen Gaur - Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Ethics and Applications

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Explainable artificial intelligence (AI) lies at the core of many activity sectors that have embraced new information technologies. Although the origins of AI can be traced back many decades, there is widespread agreement that intelligent systems with understanding, logic, and adaptation capabilities are of utmost importance today. AI approaches are reaching unparalleled levels of success while learning to solve exponentially complex computational challenges because of these capabilities, rendering them crucial for the future growth of human society. The complexity of AI-powered systems has recently improved to the point that their architecture and implementation involve virtually no human involvement. Transportation typically entails crucial life-death choices, and delegating crucial decisions to an AI algorithm without any explanation poses a serious threat. Hence, explainability and responsible AI is crucial in the context of intelligent transportation. In intelligence transportation system (ITS) implementations such as traffic management systems and autonomous driving applications, AI-based control mechanisms are gaining prominence. The book discusses and informs researchers on explainable intelligent transportation system. It also discusses prospective methods and techniques for enabling the interpretability of transportation systems. The book further focuses on ethical considerations apart from technical considerations.

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