Depends on your definition of “brute force”, I guess. Between explicitly deriving some algorithm from an understanding of causal relationships, v.s. training a

Depends on your definition of “brute force”, I guess. Between explicitly deriving some algorithm from an understanding of causal relationships, v.s. training a neural net on billions of samples without encoding any broader understanding of the world, the latter approach is the one I would have called “brute force”.