Stephen Downes

This site describes Boltzmann machines and demonstrates a tiny Boltzmann machine you can run in your browser. "Boltzmann Machines are used for unsupervised learning, which means they can learn from data without being told what to look for. They can be used for generating new data that is similar to the data they were trained on, also known as generative AI." As the site says, it mimics how energy works in physics, and more specifically, 'anneals' the connection weights by varying sensitivity, thus settling into an overall lowest-energy state, rather than into local minima. See more simulations from the same author and also some primers on key concepts.