{"id":52080,"date":"2017-04-18T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/neural-networks-explained"},"modified":"2017-06-04T06:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T13:14:50","slug":"neural-networks-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/neural-networks-explained","title":{"rendered":"Neural networks explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-networks-explained.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems\u2014such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google\u2019s latest automatic translator\u2014have resulted from a technique called \u201cdeep learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deep learning is in fact a new name for an approach to artificial intelligence called neural networks, which have been going in and out of fashion for more than 70 years. Neural networks were first proposed in 1944 by Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts, two University of Chicago researchers who moved to MIT in 1952 as founding members of what\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RLKxSvCBQZcC&q=%22first+cognitive+science+department+in+history%22#v=snippet&q=%22first%20cognitive%20science%20department%20in%20history%22&f=false\">sometimes called<\/a> the first cognitive science department.<\/p>\n<p>Neural nets were a major area of research in both neuroscience and computer science until 1969, when, according to computer science lore, they were killed off by the MIT mathematicians Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, who a year later would become co-directors of the new MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017-04-neural-networks.html\">https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;04-neural-networks.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems\u2014such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google\u2019s latest automatic translator\u2014have resulted from a technique called \u201cdeep learning.\u201d Deep learning is in fact a new name for an approach to artificial intelligence called neural networks, which have been going in and out of fashion for more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1512,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58039,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions\/58039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}