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Understanding Neural Networks
How human biology influenced the development of AI.
Intelligence is a gift from God to mankind which helped us conquer the world and reign over every other animal on earth. This intelligence is an intangible attribute that humans benefit from, we don’t yet fully comprehend what makes it tick and how it is embedded to our brains.
All we know about the brain is that it runs on a juicy mix of blood and grey matter.😂
The human brain has long been called one of the most complicated things in science and the universe. Given its complexity, it has proven very difficult to unravel its inner workings in the past but current research is beginning to reveal its secrets.
In order to develop the field of Artificial Intelligence researchers and scientists needed to look for inspiration of an already perfect system, the human brain — this is the most fascinating organ we possess, it gives us the ability to create, innovate and a long list of things no other being on earth can do.
According to ScienceFirst, one of the top 10 facts about the brain is that there are 100 billion neurons present in it and to add to this another website called Human Memory says that every neuron can form thousands of links with other neurons in this way, giving a typical brain well over 100 trillion links (up to 1,000 trillion, by some estimates).
Please stop for a second, think about these numbers and you will see the tremendous unused power our brains have.
Imagine this, whenever you have a new experience good or bad new brain links between neurons are formed to store and represent that knowledge, your brain creates a mapping between the actions and the outcomes.
Let say, for example, you are boiling water for the first time and you touch the pot while it is still hot you will get burnt, the entire experience is recorded in a new connection and it is all done automatically, the next time you see boiling water you will remember that you will have to either wait till the pot cools down a bit or find a new way of holding the pot without being burnt, this features of the brain are the ones that inspired the creation of Artificial Neural Networks and Deep learning.
