The ML model can also be an emulator of parts of the system that you don't want to personally understand, to help you get on with focusing on what you do want t

The ML model can also be an emulator of parts of the system that you don't want to personally understand, to help you get on with focusing on what you do want to figure out. Alternatively, the ML model can pretend to be the real world while you do experiments with it to figure out aspects of nature in minutes rather than hours-days of biological turnaround.