I wonder how different is this from a super-scaled brute-force approach? this reinforces my suspicion (as I try to understand it) that the AI's main contributi

I wonder how different is this from a super-scaled brute-force approach? this reinforces my suspicion (as I try to understand it) that the AI's main contribution is auto-categorizing (some form of compression which resembles understanding; I already suspect that understanding is a form of compression) the exhaustive enumerations as they compute the entire search space