>I think the “expert system” that would have to massage any data from the image recognition would be the hard part (not that image recognition is “easy” by any means). I think they’re gonna need the human in the loop for a while yet.
Let me put it this way: artificial intelligence has reached the point that it is on-par with an epileptic chicken.
{The image recognition -> ‘data massage’ system would be of AI level complexity; it would have to know what images to include and which are irrelevant.}
Methinks you may be being overly optimistic.