The Perceptron, introduced by Frank Rosenblatt in 1957, marked the beginning of neural network evolution.
Today, when we talk about AI, we’re often referring to Deep Learning — deep artificial neural networks built upon the foundations of the Perceptron.
The Perceptron is the fundamental unit behind more complex neural networks, used for binary classification.
Modern Deep Learning models build upon the basic Perceptron structure by adding multiple intermediate layers and the attention mechanism introduced in the Transformer architecture.