Comment by jama211

I suppose there’s something in what you’re saying, it’s just that’s it’s sorta vague and hard to parse for me. It also depends on the higher order problem space, for example: is it efficient if the problem is defined by “make something that can adapt to a problem space and solve it without manual engineering” rather than “make something with a long lead up time where you understand the problem space in advance and therefore have time to optimise the engine”. In the former, the neural network would indeed count as solving this efficiently, because of the given definition of the goal.