The McCulloch-Pitts neuron

The McCulloch-Pitts neuron dates back to 1943. It contains inputs, weights, and an activation function. This is precisely where you need to think like a machine and forget about human neuroscience brain approaches for this type of problem. Starting from Chapter 8, Revolutions Designed for Some Corporations and Disruptive Innovations Small to Large Companies, human cognition will be built on top of these models, but the foundations need to remain mathematical.

The following diagram shows the McCulloch-Pitts, neuron model.

This model contains a number of input x weights that are summed to either reach a threshold which ...

Get Artificial Intelligence By Example now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.