Absolutely. Gradient descent is a fantastic technique for a lot of problems. This and many other algorithms can be performed by both humans and computers and gi

Absolutely. Gradient descent is a fantastic technique for a lot of problems. This and many other algorithms can be performed by both humans and computers and give useful results. Notice neither your or my comments connect any of this to learning. After numerous times making chicken broth, something will change about your brain/body and we will say 'you learned how to season broth.' We have basically no idea what this process is, or whether it relies on gradient descent or anything else.