From self-driving cars to facial recognition, modern life is growing more dependent on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that learns from datasets without explicit programming.

You can't see inside any opaque box, but the color black adds an air of mystery. chingraph/iStock via Getty Images For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes ...