This is a step towards a human-machine hybrid world. Putting a human in the loop can do wonders. Sure, it is expensive now, but the subsequent iterations will crush it.
Either we're going to use these tools to augment our abilities or basically just become wiped out, at least our jobs will be, and there is no plan to provide support for anyone. Maybe the tech will make the transition to a post employment world so swift we don't even feel any negative economic effects at all, but let's see.
(unless the robots of the future are like Bender)
Maybe this is the cliff , but it feels unlikely.
I think this is what differentiates the speed at which AIs have gotten from ok -> good -> great -> better than humans at say chess, versus say driving a car, summarizing a paper, understanding human requests, recommending music, etc.
I think a lot of people are extrapolating the rate of progress & possible accuracy rates from chess bots to domains that do not compare.