Comment by mindcrime

> The AI folks cleverly named their data structures "neuron" and "neural network" to make it seem like we do.

I don't think any (serious) neural network researchers are trying to trick anybody or claim greater fidelity with the operations of the human brain than are warranted. If anything, Hinton - one of the "godfathers of neural networks" in the popular zeitgeist - has been pretty outspoken about how ANN's have only a most superficial resemblance to real neurons.

Now, the "pop science" commenters, and the "talking heads" and "influencer" types and the marketing people, that's a different story...