From Biological Learning to Artificial Neural Network: What’s Next?

Can artificial intelligence help us understand how the brain works?

Back in the beginning of the 21st century, when I studied for MBA at NYU Stern, one class I took was called Data Mining, which introduced many algorithms to “mine” the data, meaning to automatically find the meaning of the data for forecasts and decision making. The neural network was one of them, but it was far from the top choices because it was slow, required a lot of data to train, and, hence, had…