[joe_the_user]

Uh,

The similarity of corporations and neural nets is pretty much only that both are information processing systems. An operating system or missile guidance system is far more like a corporation than a neural network.

Neural networks have no memory and generally don't seek particular goals, they simply recognize, predict and generate similar instances.

[Retric]

Plenty of ways to think about this stuff. IMO neural networks don’t inherently do anything, it’s just a data structure.

Different ways you can interact with that data structure can however provide meaning and store information in the weights etc.

[d0gsg0w00f]

    > Neural networks have no memory and generally don't seek particular goals, they simply recognize, predict and generate similar instances.

Sounds exactly like every corporation I've ever worked in.

[mensetmanusman]

Neural networks do have a memory of sorts, that’s why they improve with node size. A mathematician proved something along these lines recently.

The memory isn’t digital bits like we think of now though, but abstractions in higher dimensions.