neural network

noun

: a computer architecture in which a number of processors are interconnected in a manner suggestive of the connections between neurons in a human brain and which is able to learn by a process of trial and error

called also neural net

Examples of neural network in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In fact, the concept predates large language models (LLMs); by the 2000s, researchers were studying it as a way to increase efficiency for neural networks. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

The latter ran the college’s Computer Science department; the former is intrigued by the teacher’s lectures on neural networks. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026

Imagining our brains as computers, technologists have pushed actual computing from simple adding machines to artificial neural networks and generative AI, seeking ever more detailed mirrors of our own minds. — Benjamin Riley, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026

Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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