A combination of various factors has made Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) one of the most important machine learning techniques available today. These factors include the need to solve increasingly complex problems, the explosion of data, and the emergence of technologies, such as readily available cheap clusters, that provide the computing power necessary to design very complex algorithms.
In fact, this is the research area that is rapidly evolving and is responsible for most of the major advances claimed by leading-edge tech fields such as robotics, natural language processing, and self-driving cars.
Looking into the structure of an ANN, its basic unit is a neuron. The real strength of the ANN lies in its ability to use the power of multiple neurons by organizing them in a layered architecture. An ANN creates a layered...