@neonsnake I'm not an expert, or even moderately skilled in the areas but have been to a course...

Neural networks have "weights" been neurons and the different methods have different ways of determining the weights. The undirected nets are basically self guided with a set of inputs and known outputs. The computer figures out based on probability. This is how a computer knows if the photo is a dog or a cat etc, or if cells are cancerous or normal.

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@neonsnake In my opinion AI tools are best suited for interpolation working within the known things. Gen AI extrapolates and that's where the hallucinations happen.

The AI tool I've found most useful is audio transcription. I run the Whisper model on my low end Nvidia GPU and it turns rough audio into surprisingly good text.

Image classification and computer vision to identify good/bad products on a manufacturing line is another good use.

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@neonsnake It's technical but the WP page on Neural Nets is good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_artificial_neural_networks?wprov=sfla1 (3/3)
Types of artificial neural networks - Wikipedia