I am not in the field so I cannot speak very eloquently what it would mean for machine learning algorithm to "ever know something". But I feel that e.g. Simulat

I am not in the field so I cannot speak very eloquently what it would mean for machine learning algorithm to "ever know something". But I feel that e.g. Simulations and perhaps expert systems of yore, were qualitatively closer to getting there. Their error modes were radically different. They started inductively with rules, rather than arriving at them statistically almost by accident.