Consider the vast size of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources. 50 years to compile 17 volumes of eccentric vocabulary variations, and that's just from *British sources*

The key point about AI is that it is a massive aggregator of everything that's gone before, which is great as far as it goes, but that limits it when dealing with the unfamiliar and the new. But a lot of people still regard it with superstitious awe and consider it somehow superior to human skills