ARTIFICIAL NATURAL NETWORKS This article is part of a series on artificial intelligence, and in this installment, we'll be discussing artificial neural networks. Introduction and how the brain works Before diving into the topic, it's important to understand the significance of the development of intelligent machines. In May 1997, the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, was defeated by an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. This marked a turning point in the quest for intelligent machines, as Deep Blue was able to analyze 200 million positions per second and appeared to display intelligent thoughts. This achievement paved the way for machine learning, which involves adaptive mechanisms that enable computers to learn from experience and improve their performance over time. The most popular approaches to machine learning...