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What is "elements of neural network computing?"
As I understand it, this involves logical "nodes" that simulate neurons -- in other words, a single logical node has many inputs and many outputs. An input can be either inhibitory (a message that the node should NOT fire a given output) or excitory (a message that the node SHOULD fire a given output). Whether the output actually fires depends on the balance of all the "votes" that come from all inputs taken together.
Then that node's output, when it fires, can be either inhibitory or excitory for node it hooks up with in the chain. Pile up enough enough of this kind of logic, and the whole thing (in theory at least) works more like a human brain than a conventional digital circuit.
You can even get beyond "yes-no" digital processing and enter into shades of grey.
[edited by: tedster at 2:53 am (utc) on Dec. 11, 2003]
certainly the concept of Neural networks is based on digital logic or may i say Wittgeinsitenian logic, but its the nodes interaction between millions if not billions and trillions that are the key to what is meant in human comprehension, and i think thats what Teoma / XIM are trying to achieve across language - which is an extremly massive task. Not since Alfred Lord Tennison and Bertrand Russell in their copus magnus the 'Principia Mathematica' (unfortunatley unsuccessful in its final c onclusion though exhibitorty in its method) has any serious suggestion of natural langauge processing and neural networking (fuzzy logic) been seriously comprehended since. Lots of good inventive idea's but the substance and proof lacking.
I wonder how Kyoto university is doing with their Neural Network which they were growing - x.nodes in 2000, but not quite competting with the necessary - to deal an open hand of cards in a language and/or across all languages.
Evolutionary Robot with Neural Network Computing [ipsj.or.jp]
This kind of thing is well into new territory: actually growing neuron-like biological structures in a predetermined array on a chip. It would be wild if Ask is actually using some of those.
Somehow, I don't think so. Rather, I see them using the kind of lessons in fuzzy logic that are being generated in Kyoto. The kind of self-organizing logical structures that can be developed and particularly, copin within a "competitive-cooperative" environment.
Nothing describes today's web (and struggle between SEs and webmasters for control of the SERPs) like that phrase "competitive-cooperative".
