US professors working on key AI project

SAN FRANCISCO - Eight computer science professors at the Oregon State University have been tasked with making such systems as autonomous vehicles and robots more trustworthy using artificial intelligence.

Recent advances in autonomous systems that can perceive, learn, decide and act on their own stem from the success of the deep neural networks branch of AI, with deep-learning software mimicking the activity in the layers of neurons in the neocortex, the part of the brain where thinking occurs.

The problem, however, is that the neural networks function as a black box.