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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 thi
by jychang 1y ago
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 1y agoI 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 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron
- _heimdall 1y agoWhat'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.