Yeah it's not an AGI, but I think the response was more that DL isn't necessarily limited to automating tasks that are easy for humans but hard for machines wit

Yeah it's not an AGI, but I think the response was more that DL isn't necessarily limited to automating tasks that are easy for humans but hard for machines without DL (which I think was your original statement). DL could potentially do a better job by recognizing patterns in the dataset that lead towards winning (making more money) that humans might miss. Like how AlphaZero can recognize moves in Go or Chess that humans don't understand are the best moves to make. It's not obvious to me how this would be done, but I think it's plausible that some clever implementation could help.