By Ben Avner, co-founder & CTO, Matchly.
The concept of machine learning first came up when Alan Turing wrote a paper about whether machines could achieve artificial intelligence. In 1957, Frank Rosenblatt designed the first neural network, called the perceptron algorithm. They are called neural networks because they are thought to be designed based on a simplistic way of how the brain works in order to process information. Though there were some initial real-world applications for machine learning, such as the Madaline network, which could eliminate phone lines’ background echo, it wouldn’t rise back to prominence until computer vision applications emerged in 2012.
In 2012, AlexNet,