neural network
noun
: a computer architecture in which a number of processors are interconnected in a manner suggestive of the connections between neurons in a human brain and which is able to learn by a process of trial and error
called also neural net
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The 1950s saw the scientific community dismiss neural networks as theoretical curiosities.
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Sadhasivam Mohanadas, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Backprop, along with more powerful computers, helped spur a renaissance in neural networks.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
During an initial training process that actually creates the AI model's neural network, the model absorbs statistical relationships from billions of examples of text, storing patterns about how words and ideas typically connect.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Those fears were grounded in a fact about how neural networks, the basis of all of today’s most powerful AIs, are created.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
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Sadhasivam Mohanadas, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Backprop, along with more powerful computers, helped spur a renaissance in neural networks.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
During an initial training process that actually creates the AI model's neural network, the model absorbs statistical relationships from billions of examples of text, storing patterns about how words and ideas typically connect.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Those fears were grounded in a fact about how neural networks, the basis of all of today’s most powerful AIs, are created.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Neural network.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neural%20network. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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