Perhaps you mean it communicates the wrong idea to the layperson?
No, I mean it communicates the wrong idea to everyone.
Among laypeople it encourages magical thinking about these statistical models.
Amongst the educated, the metaphor only serves to cloud what's really going on, while creating the impression that these models in some way meaningfully mimick the brain, something we know so little about that it's the height of hubris to come to that conclusion.
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No, I mean it communicates the wrong idea to everyone.
Among laypeople it encourages magical thinking about these statistical models.
Amongst the educated, the metaphor only serves to cloud what's really going on, while creating the impression that these models in some way meaningfully mimick the brain, something we know so little about that it's the height of hubris to come to that conclusion.