How to Use neural network in a Sentence

neural network

noun
  • This meant that there were many things neural networks could still not do.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Third, the world happens to work the way neural networks do.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But a neural network can be trepanned a few dozen times before lunch.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • That is where neural networks are now taking us.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Therefore, it was paired with a neural network by the team.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And their org charts will look less like pyramids and more like neural networks.
    — Nikit Shah, USA Today, 24 May 2025
  • But neural networks had some big drawbacks too.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That’s why self-play and deep neural networks fit together so well.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Ross used this data to train a neural network to imitate his play.
    — ArsTechnica, 7 July 2025
  • These neural networks can take an image or video and tell you what appears to be going on.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of using neural networks to do computer things has been around for decades.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Deep machine learning like that used by neural networks is something of a black box.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • This is due to neural networks that connect different parts of the brain.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In a neural network with hundreds of unlabeled knobs… what do any of them mean?
    — ArsTechnica, 8 June 2026
  • The tricky bit is that neural networks learn by altering their own innards.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 9 July 2017
  • And without that sort of signal, there's no way for the neural network to learn anything.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The resulting neural network was more robust and able to learn faster.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • For anyone who wasn’t a neural network expert, the ideas were complex.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • For the longest time, Hinton’s neural networks could not come alive.
    — Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • And that’s thanks to machine learning and neural networks, mere baby steps.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
  • And yet, all this time, neural networks have had a disadvantage.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The team spent half a year trying to understand how the neural network had gotten so wise.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Despite that success, neural networks soon fell out of favor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2025
  • In a nutshell, neural networks are mappings.
    — Andrej Prša, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That’s why the walkways and dwellings resemble a neural network.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In a neural network that makes up an AI, each cell is identical.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Light strips flow through the whole vehicle, meant to remind the viewer of a neural network.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 7 Jan. 2020
  • These are stored in the first layer of the neural network, called the embedding layer.
    — Amos Zeeberg, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The neural network could compare two photos from different days and spot any changes.
    — Jackie Snow, National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Then, when the training is complete, the spiking neural network performs the task on the chip.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2022

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