Hilary and Roger discuss the paradigm-shifting Echo Show, whether we need explainable AI or not, and how lessons from DevOps could be useful in analysis development. Show notes: Peter Norvig on explainable AI: https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/621059/google-research-chief-questions-value-explainable-ai/ Wired article about Google's Site Reliability Engineering: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/google-ensures-services-almost-never-go/?mbid=nl_4616 Support us through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/NSSDeviations Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng Hilary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hspter Get the Not So Standard Deviations book: https://leanpub.com/conversationsondatascience/ Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/not-so-standard-deviations/id1040614570 Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Izfnbx6tlruojkfrvhjfdj3nmna Find past episodes: https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast Contact us at [email protected]