6.034 Artificial Intelligence - Recitations, fall 2004 online slides on learning

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Neural Networks

Instead of traditional vonNeumann machines, researchers wanted to build machines based on the human brain

An architecture as well as a learning technique
Connection Machine

The data structure is a network of units that act as "neurons"

Tested as a computing device originally by researchers such as Jon Hopfield (Cal Tech), Hebb (1949), Minsky (1951), and Rosenblatt (1957)

Also models human performance
Voice recognition, handwriting recognition, face recognition (traditionally computers bad at these tasks, humans great)