Almost everybody these days is talking AI. Every day you see exciting new tools and demos showing its potential. Many people use the technology without knowing at a fundamental level how it works (just like driving a car... yup you start it and drive away).

A couple of years ago a very wise man told me, that I had to go back to the roots in order to see what is happening at the core of techologies that I'm using. An advise that I'm still grateful for.

In order to understand what AI is, I had to study its roots. In this session, I'll show what I learned from building a neural network from scratch in C#.

The network is capable of recognizing handwritten numbers, but it could be trained for recognizing other things as well.