Explainability as the key ingredient for AI adoption in Industry 5.0 settings.

Journal: Frontiers in artificial intelligence
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Abstract

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has gained significant attention as a means to address the transparency and interpretability challenges posed by black box AI models. In the context of the manufacturing industry, where complex problems and decision-making processes are widespread, the XMANAI platform emerges as a solution to enable transparent and trustworthy collaboration between humans and machines. By leveraging advancements in XAI and catering the prompt collaboration between data scientists and domain experts, the platform enables the construction of interpretable AI models that offer high transparency without compromising performance. This paper introduces the approach to building the XMANAI platform and highlights its potential to resolve the "transparency paradox" of AI. The platform not only addresses technical challenges related to transparency but also caters to the specific needs of the manufacturing industry, including lifecycle management, security, and trusted sharing of AI assets. The paper provides an overview of the XMANAI platform main functionalities, addressing the challenges faced during the development and presenting the evaluation framework to measure the performance of the delivered XAI solutions. It also demonstrates the benefits of the XMANAI approach in achieving transparency in manufacturing decision-making, fostering trust and collaboration between humans and machines, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing business value.

Authors

  • Carlos Agostinho
    Center of Technology and System (CTS), Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias (UNINOVA), Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory (LASI), Caparica, Portugal.
  • Zoumpolia Dikopoulou
    AiDEAS, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Eleni Lavasa
    Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMSI), ATHENA RC, Athens, Greece.
  • Konstantinos Perakis
    UBITECH, Athens, Greece.
  • Stamatis Pitsios
    UBITECH, Athens, Greece.
  • Rui Branco
    Knowledgebiz Consulting, Almada, Portugal.
  • Sangeetha Reji
    Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (FOKUS), Berlin, Germany.
  • Jonas Hetterich
    Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (FOKUS), Berlin, Germany.
  • Evmorfia Biliri
    Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions, Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Fenareti Lampathaki
    Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions, Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Silvia Rodríguez Del Rey
    Asociacion De Empresas Technologicas Innovalia, Bilbao, Spain.
  • Vasileios Gkolemis
    Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMSI), ATHENA RC, Athens, Greece.

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