Neural networks made easy – TechCrunch

If you've dug into any articles on artificial intelligence, you've almost certainly run into the term "neural network." Modeled loosely on the human brain, artificial neural networks enable computers to learn from being fed data. The efficacy of this powerful branch of machine learning, more than anything else, has been responsible for ushering in a new era of artificial intelligence, ending a long-lived "AI Winter." Simply put, the neural network may well be one of the most fundamentally disruptive technologies in existence today. This guide to neural networks aims to give you a conversational level of understanding of deep learning.