The Game of Go has been explored for 2500 years and resulted in a body of theories that Go masters study in Go schools. Alpha Go discovered that human Go understanding was caught in a local optimum, and broke out of it. The game of modern physics started only 130 years ago...
Oh, I fully agree. The question is whether and how efficiently we can get the system to extract the structure we are interested in at all. At the moment, our algorithms use magnitudes more training data, or at least many more passes of the same data. Often, speed compensates.