What is Perceptron?

A Perceptron is an Artificial Neuron.

Human has Neurons also called nerve cells. These neurons are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system. These cells are responsible for receiving input (sensory) and giving commands to our body (output). The unit of this nervous system is called a neuron.

Similarly, machines can have a humanlike nervous system called Neural Networks. Perceptron is a single-layer neural network and when it comes to multi-layer is called Neural Network. A perceptron takes some inputs (numerical data) and produces a decision (output). There are some calculating steps in between.

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