Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 29 of 68

Artificial neurons as activation units

The building blocks of neural networks are simplified versions of biological neurons called activation units. These units have a set of input connections and a set of output connections. These connections model the job performed by axons.

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