That's not a correct characterization of what happened with chess. Computer chess programs do not work the same way as the human mind. The human mind uses very

That's not a correct characterization of what happened with chess. Computer chess programs do not work the same way as the human mind. The human mind uses very strong heuristics, and then simulates the game to a relatively small set of positions. We do not really understand how that heuristic part works. On the other hand, computers use very simple and weak heuristics, but search a huge space of possible moves. I'd argue that we learned relatively little about how humans play chess from chess AI. The same goes for most other kinds of AI. AI/machine learning isn't studying how the human mind does it an replicating that, it is developing a method that is effective for computers.