Problems for Nets and Nets for Problems

Abstract

A neural net can only be an element, or “organ”, of a larger machine,whose “anatomy” and “physiology” must serve some purpose, or purposes; the name “computer”, no matter what qualifications are added, seems inadequate for such a machine, which may be required to perform tasks which have nothing to do with computation, or to deal with “ambiguity” rather than with “tertium non datur”, like animals or quantum physics. My personal experience has always led me to confront problems whose very existence was previously unknown; however satisfactory some results may have been to me, each step has only increased my feeling of ignorance and strengthened my belief that the whole field is still in its infancy.