A neural network is not a model

This article is super dry. Should have defined what model is first.

It says this model vs whatever descrimination is central to ai introductory, but doesn't say why. Why does this bother the author? Why is this important? What confusion one might have if nn is claimed as a model?

Instead, it simply says "I don't think nn is a model" and goes into hideous details about RNN's hidden states. What about a fully connected nn?