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Comment by joe_the_user

Sort of but it seems a bit of a cheat.

Neural networks are universal approximators. Choose a function and get enough data from it and you can approximate it very closely and maybe exactly. If initially creating function F required algorithm Y ("search" or whatever), you can do your approximation to F and then say "Look F without Y" and for all we know, the approximation might be doing things internally that are actually nearly identical to the initial F.

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