Comment by famouswaffles

>Even for cases where the UAT applies (which is not everywhere, as I show next), your caveat understates the case. There are dramatically better and worse algorithms for differing problems.

The grand goal of AI is a general learner that can at least tackle any kind of problem we care about. Are DNNs the best performing solution for every problem? No and I agree on that. But they are applicable to a far wider range of problems. There is no question what the better general learner paradigm is.

>* Or am I wrong? Is there a theoretical result I don't know about?

Thankfully, we don't need to get into theoreticals. Go ask GPT-4 to sort an arbitrary list of numbers. Change the length and try again.