Now I pose another question to you. What is "learning?" When you feed a bunch of input to an ANN, isn't it doing exactly what it's told? The ANN itself does

Now I pose another question to you. What is "learning?" When you feed a bunch of input to an ANN, isn't it doing exactly what it's told? The ANN itself does not seek out knowledge, it only adjusts weights according to an algorithm depending on inputs. The allure to having a fixed, visible algorithm is that you are aware of many of the limitations. Having a black box obscures those limitations, but I won't deny it's alluring in other ways.