A Beginners Guide to Neural Networks

“The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.” — Howard Rheingold Ai is coming, AI is coming. That is all we hear these days and how it is going to severely impact everyone’s’ lives. Jobs will be lost, humans will be replaced by machines in every industry and many other dooming predictions that are written in magazines and blogs. How many people are even cognizant about what aspects of artificial intelligence there are out in the world? This post is going to cover one of those such aspects, a beginner’s guide to neural networks. We will look at what neural networks are, how they operate, what are the different types and how they can and will impact our lives. Let’s begin by looking at what these networks are. ...