Looking Outwards

One of the projects I found very interesting has to be the ones done by “Martin Wattenberg” to help better visualize the information being processed by machine learning. One of the scariest things about machine learning is the idea of separating the human from the machine. In a way, the concept of “self-learning” machines is a scary one too many people, and often is portrayed as the end of humanity in various movies and TV shows. However, using the visualizations by Wattenberg, we are able to better understand what goes on inside the machine learning code and what kinds of decisions are being made. On top of helping us better understand the inner workings of machine learning code, Wattenberg also created a way for engineers and scientists to learn about machine learning systems. The future of automation and the tech industry seems to revolve around machine learning; however, it takes a lot of prior computer science knowledge to fully understand it. With this visualization, Wattenberg has made it much easier to visualize and conceptualize the powers of machine learning.