Surely you've seen the improvement over the last 5-6 years from machine learning in all the interpretation toolsets. The last place I worked we internally had a seismic inversion tool that blew all the commercial suites out the water. I'm currently contracting for an AI/ML service company currently that has a synthetic welllog tool that is can apparently beat the pants off actual well logging tools for a fraction of the cost (though I'm not a geologist or petrophysicist so I can't personally verify this.)
I think the problem is more the media and advertisers likes to paint the picture of a magical AI tool which will instantly solve all your problems and do all the work instead of a fulcrum to make doing the actual work significantly easier.
I think the problem is more the media and advertisers likes to paint the picture of a magical AI tool which will instantly solve all your problems and do all the work instead of a fulcrum to make doing the actual work significantly easier.