What are neural networks?

Question

With AI becoming more and more prevalent, I am hearing the term “neural networks” being thrown around. What are they and what function do they serve?

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Answer 1

**“Neural network” is just a name for a specific machine learning model / method** In other words, one specific “recipe” to tell a computer to “learn” something.

In terms of how that recipe works — well, that’s like asking “how does a regression work.” The answer is going to be a lot of very boring detailed math. But the name “neural network” comes from the fact that the model is kind of inspired by the human brain (neurons).