Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I think it's a good insight. There's often more than one way to solve a problem, and ML has shown that one can solve cer

Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I think it's a good insight. There's often more than one way to solve a problem, and ML has shown that one can solve certain problems by extracting commonalities from existing solutions, without understanding the true mechanism below. AlphaFold showed that we can "solve" protein folding without solving the underlying quantum mechanics, which is something that can probably be done in other areas as well. That said there might be some problems that might only be solvable using a full quantum simulation, though personally I think that class of problems will be rather small.