> That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any

> That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data) Seems like it's very much the former, and not all the latter. Indeed my understanding of the last 15 years of AI research is that 'rules-based' methods floundered while purely 'data-mimicking' methods have flourished.