The repetition of a false analogy does not make it true. They are no more neurons than transistors are "little brain cells". This is just shorthand for outsider

The repetition of a false analogy does not make it true. They are no more neurons than transistors are "little brain cells". This is just shorthand for outsiders who can't hope to understand. But on HN, we have technologists. The nodes of an ML model are made of math and code. There is no neuron there, and those nodes work very different than neurons in their action and structure. The analogy breaks down.