> But I guess the world is complicated enough and computers got fast enough that having an AI look at a computer screen and move/click a mouse makes sense. It'

> But I guess the world is complicated enough and computers got fast enough that having an AI look at a computer screen and move/click a mouse makes sense. It's not that the world is particularly complicated here - it's just that computing is a dynamic and adversarial environment. End-user automation consuming structured data is a rare occurrence not because it's hard, but because it defeats pretty much every way people make money on the Internet. AI is succeeding now because it is able to navigate the purposefully unstructured and obtuse interfaces like a person would.