[_heimdall]

What were you getting at with the MLP example? MLPs do a great job with perception abilities and I get that they use the term neuron frequently. I disagree with the use of the name there that's all, similarly I disagree that LLMs are AI but here we are.

Using the term neuron there and meaning it literally is like calling an airplane a bird. I get that the colloquial use exists, but no one thinks they are literal birds.

[jychang]

Do you also disagree with the use of the name “tree” in a computer science class?

Again, nobody thinks trees in computer science contains squirrels, nobody thinks airplanes are birds, and nobody thinks a neuron in a ML model contains axons and dendrites. This is a weird hill to die on.

Are you gonna complain that the word “photograph” is “light writing” but in reality nobody is writing anything so therefore the word is wrong?

[_heimdall]

I would disagree with anyone that wants to say they are the same as a natural tree, sure.

I don't believe the term photograph was repurposed when cameras were invented, that example doesn't fit.

More importantly, I argued that neuron has a very specific biological meaning and its a misuse to use the term for what is ultimately running on silicon.

Your claim was that they are neurons, period. You didn't expand on that further which reads as a pretty literal use of the term to me. We're online discussing in text, that reading of your comment could be completely wrong, that's fine. But I stand by my point that what is inside an LLM or a GPU is not a neuron.

[jychang]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron

[_heimdall]

What's your point with that link? I'm well aware that people use the term neuron in AI research and acknowledged it a few comments up. I disagree with the use of term, I'm not arguing that the term isn't used.