You can also train a horse to tap it's foot once for "yes" and twice for "no". You can ask it a bunch of questions, and it can seem like you're having a conversation, but it turns out the horse is just paying attention to a few details about your body language and performing the action you gave it carrots for. It might seem like intelligence, even to the trainer, but it's a parlor trick.
I don't mean to diminish the power and value provided by deep learning, but it doesn't change the fact that pattern recognition is not equivalent to intelligence.
You don't need to make a vehicle as complex as a cheetah for it to move as quickly as cheetah. You just strap a rocket to a box and you're there.
Granted a rough solution like that is not as good or as agile as a live cheetah in a lot of ways, but it depends on what you're optimizing for.