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 Why do humans need to create AI to solve problems,  when the AI requires the humans to collect data to feed in to the AI in the first place. 

At one time we just analyzed the data ourselves. 
 @608152d1 @31b3bda5  There is a reasonable assumption that the data is too massive (100 trillion gigabytes of yearly data volume), so  we have moved to streams analysis/reporting/AI rather than starting at basic human analysis.  The catch is, that in most use, data is a form of waste stream.  It is the as-is byproduct of a system that doesn't work. We need to break down requirements first, determine constraints, then move on to a new system that will have an entirely different stream of data.