Compare artificial and biological neural networks.

Include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.

Chapter 5 –discussion question #1-4 & exercise 6 & internet exercise #7 (go to  neuroshell.com click on the examples and look at the current examples listed, the Gee Whiz example is no longer on the page).

Discussion Question #1

What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used?

Discussion Question #2

Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar?

Discussion Question #3

What are the most common ANN architectures? For what types of problems can they be used?

Discussion Question #4

ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode and in an unsupervised mode.

Exercise #6

Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct a search to find two papers written in the last five years that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning methods for a given problem domain. Observe commonalities and differences among their findings and prepare a report to summarize your understanding.

Internet Exercise #7

Go to neuroshell.com. Look at Gee Whiz examples. Comment on the feasibility of achieving the results claimed by the developers of this neural network model.