Back in the fifties when thermionic valves (tubes) were being used, if alpha deep mind was being used then, could the electronics industry have moved into our present-day electronics or even photonics by trying transistors integrated chips, etc in a virtual testing setup.,(reply>), It's sort of a chicken and egg problem. You are asking if we ran modern software on 1950 hardware then could we have developed modern hardware quicker. The problem is that the early computers did not have the quantity of data or compute power to run modern software. But, now we can use AI to help develop the next generation of hardware.