neural computer

American  

noun

1. a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.

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neural computer British  

noun

1. another name for neurocomputer

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Other Word Forms

• neural computing noun
• neurocomputing noun

Etymology

Origin of neural computer

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

“It’s a differentiable neural computer.”

From Slate

It uses advanced cameras and neural computer networks to spot someone it is looking for - from "a speck" up to 150 metres away.

From BBC

The neural computer that sits behind his blue eyes manages somehow to start with that limited information from his senses and to end up making predictions about plant-eating titanosaurs.

From Scientific American

DeepMind's new system — which they call a 'differentiable neural computer' — can make sense of a map it has never seen before.

From Nature

But systems with external memories like DeepMind’s neural computer haven’t yet busted out of the lab, and much work likely is still necessary to make them commercially relevant, said Yoshua Bengio, the director of the University of Montreal’s Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, who does research in this area but wasn’t involved in developing the new neural computer.

From The Wall Street Journal