This comic was published less than ten years ago, and it's wild how obsolete it is
xkcd.com
We can get a computer to tag the birds, answer questions about them, and generate new pictures of them.
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We can get a computer to tag the birds, answer questions about them, and generate new pictures of them.
That's true, even if the specific example doesn't hold, the core concept does. If I needed to implement a bird detector today, I'd make an API call to AWS Rekognition or an equivalent service. It would take me a day or two to learn the API and then maybe 4 hours to actually implement. But if you asked me to implement a bird species detector, I'm pretty sure there is no off the shelf API capable of that, and I would indeed need months or years.