are human brains connected like a neural net

Human brains are connected like a neural net, with neurons forming links called synapses. 1 These synapses are capable of strengthening or weakening depending on how active they are, a process known as plasticity. 1 Artificial neural networks are modeled loosely on the human brain, with thousands or even millions of interconnected nodes. 2 They are feed-forward, meaning data moves through them in one direction 2 , and are used to train models such as the XOR function. 3 Artificial neurons use continuous values with continuous activation functions, and are trained using the backpropagation algorithm. 3