"There is just one problem: [biological neural networks] are physically incapable of running the backpropagation algorithm."

From the linked article.

I read that sentence. The article is not the only source of truth in brain function, and its author may be too certain about the brain. In any case, there will always be dissimilarities between biological neurons and computations on silicon, which probably shouldn't be called neurons, in order to avoid confusion.

I agree. Really don't appreciate the level at which researchers are willing to make these comparisons right now. They're moving fast and publishing things.

It's probably far too late to change the name for computational neural nets - but I agree. Something like a "differentiable learning graph" or something would be better.