Not to be discouraging, but if you're just starting to learn about artificial neural networks, you have a long way to go... That said, in the few years of expe

Not to be discouraging, but if you're just starting to learn about artificial neural networks, you have a long way to go... That said, in the few years of experience I've had with ANNs, they really do seem like an intuitive analog for human learning, at a high level. And thinking about training problems in this way, approximately "what kind of training data would I need to train a small child to do this" can be more helpful than one might have otherwise expected. I think we're just a handful of major breakthroughs away from true AI, assuming compute and memory continue to scale. Certainly within 100 years.