Another interesting thing is that the state of the art with computers changes. That XKCD came out about a decade ago, and it was spot on at the time - I had recently finished a project on identifying nature and automation was hopelessly useless. But now it is almost as straightforward to hook up an image classifier and tell you whether a photo contains a bird than check whether a location is in a national park - quite possibly easier, since there's APIs for that that pretty much anyone who can code can use, but the location lookup might need a bit more development.