[...] plenty of parameters optimized using a learning process [...] Would that not make fitting a degree 1,000,000 polynomial a neural method? I also think ga

[...] plenty of parameters optimized using a learning process [...] Would that not make fitting a degree 1,000,000 polynomial a neural method? I also think gaussian splats encode the same information as NeRFs, which have neural in the name. The collection of source images also encodes the same information but I don't think we should call them neural images. I would argue we should stick with the original meaning, inspired by biological neural networks, a network of artificial neurons. Calling everything neural because of the hype will benefit no one in the long run as the term will just lose any meaning.