Over long periods of time spent in physical archives, you develop a holistic picture of a slice of history that is necessarily individual to you, as the researcher, because you can’t control or even fully understand what your brain finds interesting in a set of documents. They’re just ... interesting . Maybe not to anyone else, at first. But over... See more

where AI may hit an unexpected wall is any domain which depends upon some combination of intuition, physical presence, and illegible data .

Like, say, history.