It warms to see that the similarities of some aspects of biological life to the current AI/ML terms has entered the lexicon, well at least on HN crowd. The fact that it makes a lot of sense to use those terms hints that we might indeed be on the right track to building AGI and understnding the life itself in general.
Note that this process is NOT backpropagation.
"The fact that it makes a lot of sense to use those terms hints that we might indeed be on the right track to building AGI and understnding the life itself in general"
Nope, it's a residual of the fact that AI stole ideas from other fields, and ran with the terminology as marketing. Sometimes even to the point of extreme divergence from the original ("neural" nets).
But there is also the danger of false analogies doing damage, by creating the illusion of understanding something because the wording feels familiar.
There are no doubts similarities, but that does not mean, it is the same.
That happened a couple of times already with progess in technology and then simplified applied technical models to biological life.
So sure, I think so too, that we are on the right track, I am just a bit more hesistant.