Bananas and Peanut Butter

Apparently, there was an overwhelming response to my first blog so I get to write another one. Thanks again to both of you who read it. Given all the doom and gloom about AI in the media recently, in this episode I'd like to talk (write) about some of the positive things going on with a branch of AI known as "deep learning". Way back in ancient times when computers were just getting started in the '60s, while some scientists worked to perfect the lava lamp, others invented something called a neural network. Neural networks were loosely modeled after how they thought the brain worked back then, with an input and output and in between hidden layers of artificial neurons.