Chapter 2: Understanding Neural Networks
Submitted by jeffheaton on Mon, 12/24/2007 - 03:05.
The neural network has long been the mainstay of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programming. As programmers we can create programs that do fairly amazing things. Programs can automate repetitive tasks such as balancing checkbooks or calculating the value of an investment portfolio. While a program could easily maintain a large collection of images, it could not tell us what any of those images are of. Programs are inherently unintelligent and uncreative. Ordinary computer programs are only able to perform repetitive tasks.









