This is a poor hot take. The title isn’t sensationalized. It’s pretty accurate. Neural networks are only in the loosest sense inspired by biology. Backprop its

This is a poor hot take. The title isn’t sensationalized. It’s pretty accurate. Neural networks are only in the loosest sense inspired by biology. Backprop itself was not inspired by biology. The implementation of backprop has been known for a while to not be biologically plausible for a number of reasons, some covered in the article. Even the paper’s burst method isn’t backprop. It’s a mechanism for error transport. Errors themselves are still localized which is a big break from backprop. Thus “mimicking” is correct because only the outcome is similar, not the mechanism.