You're right that the analogy doesn't imply that something analogous to physic is the answer.
However, I would mention that there's a larger "overhead" than many realize to methods which work without the creator or the user understanding why. You have "racist" AI which don't undertstand that correlation may not be causation in questions like whether someone should be paroled or get a loan, you have the AIs subject to adversial attacks of various sorts, where not knowing why the AI works is also problematic, you have a situation where the target to match varies over time and so-forth.
Which adds up to AI having more dimensions to it than simply "working well" and "working less well". Indeed, AI is effectively ad-hoc statistics with result derived heuristically.
So in the process of "getting things right" exploring all sorts of things certainly sounds good, it seems like there's an "understanding gap" that needs to be closed and some broader model of what's happening would be useful but naturally there's no guarantee we can find one.
However, I would mention that there's a larger "overhead" than many realize to methods which work without the creator or the user understanding why. You have "racist" AI which don't undertstand that correlation may not be causation in questions like whether someone should be paroled or get a loan, you have the AIs subject to adversial attacks of various sorts, where not knowing why the AI works is also problematic, you have a situation where the target to match varies over time and so-forth.
Which adds up to AI having more dimensions to it than simply "working well" and "working less well". Indeed, AI is effectively ad-hoc statistics with result derived heuristically.
So in the process of "getting things right" exploring all sorts of things certainly sounds good, it seems like there's an "understanding gap" that needs to be closed and some broader model of what's happening would be useful but naturally there's no guarantee we can find one.