00:00Well, AI is worrying a lot of people, and again, no, I'm not too worried.
00:07I'm too old to get too worried about this stuff, but if I were 30, I'd be worried,
00:16especially if I were 30 and in the arts, and if I were 30 and in the visual arts.
00:22If I were a graphic designer, I would be worried.
00:26So far, AI is a crap poet, really bad, like worse than people, and it's not a very
00:51good fiction writer, either.
00:55And people say, well, it will improve, but I think, okay, what do you mean by improve?
01:01You will never get an original creator out of AI because it's a data scraper.
01:08It can only use stuff that's been put into it.
01:12There's a writer called Alistair MacLeod who said, writers write about what worries
01:26them, which I think is pretty much true.
01:32So the world situation, as you're probably quite aware, you'd have to be, is unstable,
01:44and I think everyone feels a little tippy.
01:48They feel quite disoriented.
01:51And then you would, in the background, you would see these, you know, these...
01:56If there were an answer to that question, I would only write one.
02:03Yeah, I love people asking me about the future.
02:06It's, what do you have in mind?
02:09The next two years, the next five years, the next 10 years?
02:14Hmm, we don't know.
02:17Well, I'm writing a great honking big memoir right now, and I'm only putting in stupid
02:27things and catastrophes because everything else is boring.
02:32So we don't want to read about, I wrote a book, I wrote another book, I wrote another
02:37book, I wrote another book, and we don't want to read, I had a nice dinner.
02:44I'm a fox.
02:46Shakespeare was a fox, Milton was a cat.
02:49I'm not a writer who exists in a state of misery and finds it terribly difficult to
02:57write.
02:59You can probably guess that by the number of books I've actually written.
03:06Yeah, I'm having a good time.
03:09A film called The Red Shoes, based on his story called The Red Shoes.
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