Is AI the Future of Good Taste?

When Hui Wu was growing up in China in the 1990s, she had two interests: fashion and math. The farming town where she lived was so small and poor the fields were tilled by oxen, so there wasn't much opportunity for her to explore the first interest, and she was a girl, so her teachers told her there wasn't much point in pursuing the second, since she would fall behind the boys eventually anyway. Nevertheless, she persisted, winning admission to an elite high school, and she learned computer programming in college. This was something a two-year-old could do. Why was it so hard to train a computer?