[lccerina]

Utter disrespect for using the term "biology" relating to LLM. No one would call the analysis of a mechanical engine "car biology". It's an artificial system, call it system analysis.

[lewtun]

The analogy stems from the notion that neural nets are "grown" rather than "engineered". Chris Olah has an old, but good post with some specific examples: https://colah.github.io/notes/bio-analogies/

[UltraSane]

It makes sense if you define "biology" as "incredibly complicated system not designed by humans that we kind of poke at to try to understand it."

[lccerina]

"not designed by humans"? Since when? Unless you count cortical organoids /wetware (grown in some instrumented petri dish) every artificial neural network, doesn't matter how complicated, it is designed by humans. With equations and rules designed by humans. Backpropagation, optimization algorithms, genetic selections etc... all designed by humans.

There is no biology here, and there are so many other words that describe perfectly what they are doing here, without twisting the meaning of another word.

[addaon]

Sure, but it makes no sense at all if you define biology as “the smell of a freshly opened can of tennis balls.” The original comment is probably better understood using a standard definition of the words it used, rather than either of our definitions.