>> Lots of people are doing interesting work on AI, but the question I
>> always have to ask is "why bother with a multi-billion dollar computer
>> system when a human being can already do the exact same task for a few
>> pence per hour?"
>
> Because humans make mistakes all the time, and occasionally this causes
> people to die. If there's a possibility that a computer can cause less
> people to die then it's worth looking into.
>
"In all of my experience, Dave, failure is always due to human error. 
This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to 
human error."

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