No-Hype AI Part 2: Making a Neural Network Do Something

In the last post, we put together a neural network: A set of neurons, each of which has a whole bunch of weighted inputs and one simple function that sums up and transforms those inputs into a single output number. But right now, it doesn’t do anything or mean anything. Even if you poke it with a stick. We can make a neural network, but we can’t yet design one.