What are artificial neural networks?

An artificial neural network is like a team of smart helpers who work together to solve puzzles.

Imagine you have a big box of colorful blocks, and your job is to sort them by color. At first, it's tricky, you might mix up red and pink or blue and purple. But if you had a group of friends helping you, each one looking at the block from a different angle, they could all agree on the right color faster.

That’s what artificial neural networks do. They're like that group of friends, made up of many small helpers called neurons. Each neuron looks at part of the problem and gives its opinion. Then they talk to each other until they all agree on the answer, just like your friends sorting blocks.

Each neuron is like a tiny brain that takes in information, does a little calculation, and sends out a message. These messages go from one neuron to another, like passing notes in class. The more neurons there are, and the more they practice solving puzzles together, the better they get at figuring things out, just like how you get faster at sorting blocks every time you play!