Extreme beginner (I saw a couple presentations). Yes probably neural networks more specifically. I understand that&#x27;s where most of the excitement is nowadays and what seems to hold promises for the future. Simpler classifiers are easier to grok, but people don&#x27;t seem to project the same hopes on them that they do on neural networks.<p>&gt; Except a lot of the time we don&#x27;t really have that level of understanding.<p>Precisely my point. My work is in computer languages and I do a lot of parsing. People have a hard time conceptualizing it (truthfully, it is hard) despite the fact that it&#x27;s fully deterministic. Visualizing a huge decision tree and its ramifications, and distant consequences within it seems something humans are bad at. Neural networks have this, except they feed back into themselves, are not exactly non-deterministic, but statistical, and use a bunch of encoded intuition.