[esjeon]

NN can certainly assimilate a simple algorithm, and will be even able to do so for bigger and more complex algorithms. But I think it's mostly impractical in the current level of technology, especially in terms of speed, size, and energy efficiency.

It kinda reminds me of DeepBlue. In fact, a simple DFS has always been able to beat human in the chess, but, only in 1990s, a computer finally could beat a chess grandmaster. Reason? Because a dumb DFS is impractically slow, and the human player will die old before the computer can finish its calculation.

I believe the same goes with the current AI trend. What we have right now is rather crude. The approach itself has lots of potential, but the actual solution is yet to be found. It's really sad that people keep hyping up these partial solutions as zee AI. Whatever.