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AI: The Origin Story

The Next Big Idea

How Do Neural Networks Really Work?

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The amount of computing power that's necessary to make these neural networks really functional is orders of magnitude greater than Rosenblatt had thought. In the 80s, they just didn't realize how much data and how much processing power they would need. Now what we have are the vast amounts of data that allow this idea to work and the computing power needed to process all that data. And it's now manifest in our own individual lives with digital assistants like Google Translate.

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