AI is about scale. You can achieve similar terrible results by using, say, Mechanical Turk system with additional error checks. That scales too. The other thin

AI is about scale. You can achieve similar terrible results by using, say, Mechanical Turk system with additional error checks. That scales too. The other thing AI is about is cost and perhaps secrecy. Turk system requires many people who need to be fed, that puts a pretty high low bar on price. It also requires disseminating data to many agents, each of whom could leak it. Being more accessible means more Bad Guys (unethical actors) using it.