Is this a fair way to express your problem? You're being asked to use AI to replace an entire process all at once, rather than to assist with or replace a step

Is this a fair way to express your problem? You're being asked to use AI to replace an entire process all at once, rather than to assist with or replace a step in that process. Instead of being asked "how do I solve this problem" it would be nice if you were asked "can you replace this thing I have to do all the time?" Maybe this doesn't apply to your work, but if I were in your position I'd talk to the human that does the human version of the process and break down everything they do to get from A to Z into steps. If you can start by just replacing or augmenting a single step, you're adding value right away and you've also built a part of your eventual A to Z machine, right? For example, your search engine idea is a good direction. Can you automate the process of finding relevant articles? That would help the humans but would also help whatever AI you're working up to, right? Then maybe further in there's some other process involving physics modeling or something that is clear enough in scope to do programmatically. I do much simpler work, but I find it's much easier to automate processes one step at a time rather than all at once.