The operative word in your comment being "actions". What "actions" can (current generation) neural networks undertake? Can they initiate anything? Can they choose their own learning material? Can they even choose when or whether to repeat a certain training set?
There was a recent HN comment about this that I think illustrates the point well [0]:
experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measure it. That's what learning involves. These machines do not act on the world, they just capture correlations.
There was a recent HN comment about this that I think illustrates the point well [0]:
experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measure it. That's what learning involves. These machines do not act on the world, they just capture correlations.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201757