Universality of Neural Networks | El Mahdi El Mhamdi
Channel: Wandida, EPFL
Date: 2016-06-02

"From face recognition on Facebook photos to translating sentences on google translate, artificial neural networks can do anything". This sentence might sound exaggerated, but it has some mathematical ground.
Artificial neural networks, widely used in what is now called "deep learning" are often described as "working well with no one knowing why". In fact, mathematics tells us that neural netowkrs can approximate any continuous function. Thus their universal use in modern artificial intelligence applications.
Speaker/Editor: El Mahdi El Mhamdi

Photo credit:
Morgan Freeman, from the following Creative Commons Licenced video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPSH11mtE4