From: ejfried@ca.sandia.gov   
      
   Allan Bruce wrote:   
   > Hi there,   
   >   
   > I made an appointment to see one of my lecturers a few days back and said it   
   > was going to be about AI.  When I got there, I aske dhim about Neural Nets   
   > and he told me that NNs are not considered a branch of AI.   
   > I didnt want to disagree but he did not explain why.  Could someone please   
   > elaborate and explain why NNs are not considered a bramch of AI?   
   >   
      
   One could define AI however one chose to, I suppose, but despite your   
   lecturer's claim, NNs are considered AI by many people. They are an   
   important component of work in the fields of speech recognition and   
   computer vision, and still an important topic in their own right.   
      
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