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This is egregiously false. ML models are math and code. They are not tissue; there are no neurons in an ML model. None. The analogy is false. And it is used here to make you think that ML models are more human than they are, or more superhuman. There is no "bigger AI waiting to get out". Shoggoth anyone? These are scare tactics from hyperventilating EAs (both Scott and the Anthropic team).

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There are neurons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron

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.

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