[sarahlwalks]

One niche that ML seems to be growing into is /assisting/ humans, but not doing the whole task. ML might give you an image that is 90 percent what you want but needs a few tweaks.

If the task is clear enough, ML can take it on by itself, but this requires clear rules and an absolutely unambiguous definition of what winning means. For example, the best chess players in the world are machines, and are FAR better than the best human players. Same for Go (the game, not the programming language).