It hasn't been a surprise to anyone in the field. Turns out it's much easier to read digital content in the form of bits then to read real world data. Hardware is harder than software.
These kinds of responses are so easy to write after the fact. Show us a quote from ten years ago then, please, that says that creative writing and art will be among the first things to be automated at a mass scale. Since this
> hasn't been a surprise to anyone in the field
apparently, it should be pretty easy to find such a quote.
> hasn't been a surprise to anyone in the field
apparently, it should be pretty easy to find such a quote.