On one level, yes you’re right. Computing weights and propagating values through an ANN is well defined and very algorithmic.
On the level where the learning is done and knowledge is represented in these networks there is no evidence anyone really understands how it works.
I suspect maybe at that level you can think of it as an algorithm with unreliable outputs. I don’t know what that idea gains over thinking it’s not algorithmic and just a heuristic approximation.
On the level where the learning is done and knowledge is represented in these networks there is no evidence anyone really understands how it works.
I suspect maybe at that level you can think of it as an algorithm with unreliable outputs. I don’t know what that idea gains over thinking it’s not algorithmic and just a heuristic approximation.