neural networks

Cultural  

1. A computer system that is designed to mimic the human brain or some other biological system in its functioning. They were developed to deal with problems, such as pattern recognition, that the brain does well but that traditional computer systems cannot handle easily.

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Example Sentences

Using machine learning and neural networks, they pick out specific audio signals from animals and their surroundings that give a sense of that ecosystem’s health.

From Washington Post

Even the experts who create neural networks don’t always understand what happens in between.

From New York Times

Around 2018, researchers at companies like Google and OpenAI began building neural networks that learned from vast amounts of digital text, including books, Wikipedia articles, chat logs and other stuff posted to the internet.

From New York Times

Ultimately, Musk has said Tesla will make Dojo available to other companies that want to use it to train their neural networks.

From The Verge

There’s a view that deep neural networks kind of do this magic in between their input and output layers.

From Scientific American

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