One can perhaps say: "A neural net is a collection of machine learning approaches that are somewhat inspired by the human brain. However, neural nets have littl

One can perhaps say: "A neural net is a collection of machine learning approaches that are somewhat inspired by the human brain. However, neural nets have little to do with how the brain actually works." I think this statement (or a similar, more accurate version) is actually useful, because the name "neural net" is somewhat deceiving.