[drdeca]

How do you define "algorithm"? I suspect it is a definition I would find somewhat unusual. Not to say that I strictly disagree, but only because to my mind "neural net" suggests something a bit more concrete than "algorithm", so I might instead say that an artificial neural net is an implementation of an algorithm, rather than or something like that.

But, to my mind, something of the form "Train a neural network with an architecture generally like [blah], with a training method+data like [bleh], and save the result. Then, when inputs are received, run them through the NN in such-and-such way." would constitute an algorithm.