USGS have maps from over 100 years ago. They have already been digitized. These are probably projects to search through like a person would looking for things.

USGS have maps from over 100 years ago. They have already been digitized. These are probably projects to search through like a person would looking for things. People that collect insulators used to collect the actual maps long ago looking for old abandoned telegraph line locations (compared to today). AI is useful for searching for targeted stuff where you can replace a person doing something that is probably pretty easy, but there is a lot of work that can be automated. Like searching for new viruses. AI has made identifying new viruses relatively easy and much quicker than a person, who typically tweaks input and data looking through what is noise to identify genome sequence of a new virus.