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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And their org charts will look less like pyramids and more like neural networks.
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Nikit Shah, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Every large language model worldwide operates on philosophical assumptions embedded in its training data and neural networks.
—Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec Radford began experimenting with it.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Seen from above, meandering rivers resemble vascular systems or neural networks.
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
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Nikit Shah, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Every large language model worldwide operates on philosophical assumptions embedded in its training data and neural networks.
—Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec Radford began experimenting with it.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Seen from above, meandering rivers resemble vascular systems or neural networks.
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
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“Neural network.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neural%20network. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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